A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Joe Igbokwe has said the ruling party is not after the Senate leadership, that the party only asked the Police to prosecute senators found to be culpable in the forgery of Standing Rules of Senate.
Mr. Joe Igbokwe, who isthe Publicity Secretary, APC, Lagos State chapter, disclosed this on Saturday night, said there were more questions the principal officers and officials of the National Assembly needed to be asked.
Igbokwe said, “What happened on June 9, 2015, was an illegality that is not known in law. Out of 108 senators, only (the Senate President) Bukola Saraki and (his deputy) Ike Ekweremadu, the clerk and one or two others knew how they changed the 2011 Senate Rule to make it possible for 57 senators to go into the purported election without 51 members.
He said “Again, it is the clerk of the Senate that will tell the world why he had to read the proclamation letter from the President (Muhammadu Buhari) when 51 senators were absent. Was there a role call to make sure that everybody was present before taking the crucial decision? Nobody is trying to witch hunt anybody.”
The publicity secretary described the election that produced Saraki and Ekweremadu as leaders of the Senate as “an illegality, open robbery and a nullity.” He said, “The truth is that the so-called election never took place. Nothing happened.”
He warned that any “real” APC member who took part in the fraud of the June 9, 2015, should know that he had betrayed the struggle for change in Nigeria, which, according to him, led to the death of many Nigerians and loss of material resources since 1999.
“They have joined the enemies of change to render nugatory all our efforts to build a new Nigeria. They are Quislings,” he stated.
He added, “I want the Police to do a thorough investigations and get all those who forged the so-called 2015 Senate Rule to steal the Senate leadership on June 9, 2015. What happened in the Senate is not only strange but an aberration and the law must be allowed to its full course. This is our irreducible minimum demand.”
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