Presidency, APC Shopping For Court Order to Remove Saraki, Ekweremadu – PDP Alleges
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged that the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are shopping for a fraudulent interim court order to declare vacant, the seat of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, following his defection from the APC to the PDP.
The PDP said that credible information at its disposal showed that some cabals in the Presidency and APC have perfected a plan to institute a lawsuit to challenge the validity of Saraki’s seat with the sole aim of securing a fraudulent injunction to force him out of office pending the determination of the substantive suit.
A statement on Friday, by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan insist that further intelligence available to the PDP indicate that once they are able to secure the injunction from a particular compromised judicial officer, they intend to arraign and detain the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on trumped up charges and ensure he is not granted bail so as to keep him out of circulation while their men would move in to effect an illegal leadership change in the Senate.
Ologbondiyan further said; “While we trust that the Chief Justice of Nigeria will protect the sanctity of our judiciary especially at this trying time in our national history, we call on the institution of the judiciary at all levels to immune itself from being used by enemies of our democracy as no house falls leaving its roof standing.
“This desperation by despotic forces to forcefully and illegally take control of the Senate, the highest symbol of our Democratic Order, is nothing short of ‘civilianised coup’ which must be resisted by all.”
The opposition party therefore urged the judiciary to ensure that it is not intimidated or ensnared to be party to a desperate bid to destabilize our nation.
The PDP said that it holds that this newest devilish plot to destabilise the nation’s democracy lays credence to its earlier stand that President Buhari’s supposed London vacation is a ploy to absolve himself of responsibility for the political terror the Presidency and the APC plotted to unleash on the opposition, especially the National Assembly.
The PDP further said; “Although they denied it as usual, Nigerians can bear witness to the fact that there is nothing the APC government denied that they did not eventually execute.
“Indeed, there has never been any impunity they executed that they did not deny.
“The recent rascally attempt to hold Saraki and Ekweremadu hostage in their homes on 24th July 2018 as well as the terrorisation of the Benue State House of Assembly after Governor Samuel Ortom’s defection bear sad testimony to this fact.
“We, therefore, call on Nigerians and the international community to be on the alert as the conspirators plan to commence the execution of this evil plot from Tuesday next week.”
The PDP accordingly, cautioned the APC and others in this evil ring to note that they are now running on a collision course with Nigerians as the citizens will definitely not fold their hands and watch them destroy our hard earned democracy and foist a fascism on the nation.
