About 50 Senators cutting across different political parties in the
senate, convened an emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday September 19th
where they discussed the Code of Conduct Tribunal's invitation to
Senate President Bukola Saraki over his alleged false declaration of
assets.
Daily Trust reports that the senators at the meeting exonerated
President Buhari of being behind the current crisis facing the senate
President but accused "a cabal" within the presidency who they say is
instigating the government institutions against Senate President Saraki.
Rising from the meeting which lasted for about 4 hours with some
senators joining the meeting via telephone, the convener of the meeting,
Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah said they had unanimously resolved to support
the anti-corruption war of President Buhari and also to deal decisively
with the cabal
“We have resolved to use all available powers under the constitution to
ensure that no cabal exists and run the government on behalf of Buhari
and we have also resolved to deal decisively with the cabal,” he said.
Also another senator who spoke on the condition of anonymity after the meeting said
"Our colleagues were angry at the beginning of the meeting because they
were initially suspecting that the President has hand in the trial of
Saraki. But after heated debate, they understood that Buhari was not
responsible for it. One of our colleagues present at the meeting
suggested that the Senate should reconvene on Monday [tomorrow] in order
to address the challenge. His suggestion, however, did not see the
light of day as we resolved to use other channels to address the
challenge.”.
