Nigerian users on
Twitter, on Saturday,
expressed surprise at
the removal of the All
Progressives Congress’
name from the official
profile page of the
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
According to some users, the Senate President’s verified
Twitter biography previously read, in part, “Member of the
APC.”
However, when our correspondent visited the page, it simply
read, “Senate President and Chairman of the 8th National
Assembly. Committed to Transparency and Accountability.”
One user, Am Human No Labels, said, “Sir, are you no
longer a member of the ruling party? I can’t find APC on your
bio anymore.”
In the same vein, @olufemisp wrote, “I knew it was when
@bukolasaraki deleted the “APC” that proudly adorned his
bio. This Saraki war will consume the party.”
Another user, AS Aruwa, said, “I just noticed that
@bukolasaraki has deleted ‘Member of the APC’ from his
bio. Someone is about to decamp?”
Maryam Abubakar also asked, “Now that the ‘APC’ on Bukola
Saraki’s Twitter bio is gone, what should we expect?”
“Why is the APC on your bio gone sir?” @RichieDectector
asked, while Ayokunle Odekunle wrote, “@BukolaSaraki
removes the ‘APC’ from his bio. It gets more interesting.”
Afolabi Ajiboro also said, “@ogundamisi have you noticed
that @bukolasaraki has removed APC from his bio on
Twitter? Minutes later the PDP released statement defending
him.”
The Senate President did not respond to the controversy on
Twitter.
However, the Special Adviser to the Senate President on
Media, Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu, said, “It is not a new
development. The party logo was there during the elections
and we took it off after the elections about a month ago.”
Meanwhile, the Force Headquarters on Saturday said it was
still waiting for the bench warrant issued by the Code of
Conduct Tribunal for the arrest of the Senate President.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, said the
police had yet to get the court order as of Saturday when
our correspondent inquired about the delay in the execution
of the arrest warrant.
Kolawole explained that the police cannot arrest Saraki
without the court order.
“We have not received the bench warrant till now (Saturday)
and until we get the court order, we cannot execute it,” she
said over the phone.
Justice Danladi Umar of the Code of Conduct Tribunal had
on Friday in Abuja ordered a bench warrant against Saraki
for failing to appear before the court to answer charges over
alleged false declaration of assets.
The judge specifically ordered the Inspector General of
Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, or other security agencies to
arrest Saraki and produce him in court on Monday to take
plea in the 13-count charge slammed on him by the Federal
Government.
But Saraki’s lead counsel and former President of the
Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Joseph Daudu, said he had
filed an appeal asking the court to set aside the ruling dated
September 18, 2015.
Daudu said the trial judge erred in law and “acted without
jurisdiction by countenancing and assuming jurisdiction
over the criminal trial/prosecution of the accused/appellant
at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for a charge, which is being
challenged at the FHC, Abuja in suit No: FHC/ABJ/
CS/775/2015 between Dr. Olubukola Abubakar Saraki vs
Ministry of Justice and three others and in disobedience of
the order of the FHC, Abuja Division dated September 17,
2015.”
He averred that it was not necessary for his client to be
present in court since the accused had filed an application
challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal to adjudicate on
the charge brought before it.
The Federal Government had on September 11 filed a 13-
count charge against Saraki before the CCT and the case was
fixed for Friday for his arraignment, but the accused failed
to appear in court.
According to the suit filed at the CCT, allegations against
Saraki include failure to declare property on Plot 2A, Glover
Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; failure to declare property on No 1,
Tagus Street, Maitama, Abuja (Plot 2482, Cadastral Zone A06,
Abuja) and failure to declare property No 3, Tagus Street,
Maitama, Abuja (Plot 2481, Cadastral Properties Limited).
Buhari desperate to remove Saraki — PDP
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday
accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC
administration of despotism and desperation to remove
Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The PDP said the Buhari administration had continued to
rule the country without a constitutional component of a
cabinet, persistent abuse of power as well as undermining
democratic institutions.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh,
who said this in a statement in Abuja, also accused the
Buhari administration of intolerance, particularly over the
treatment being meted out to Saraki.
According to the PDP, the administration has invaded a state
Government House and personal houses and injected
confusion into the judiciary.
The party expressed worry over what it called the “relentless
onslaught against democratic institutions.” It said it was
especially worried by “the growing tension trailing the quest
to annex the National Assembly; for which the Presidency
had since vowed not to recognise the current Senate
leadership, in total disdain to the independence of the
legislature and the principle of separation of powers.”
The PDP also described President Buhari’s condemnation of
the recent coup in Burkina Faso as a mockery of reasoning.
Metuh said, “Ordinarily, the intra-party squabbles within the
APC regarding leadership positions in the Senate is not
necessarily our concern.
“Also, we are not interested in whether Senate President
Bukola Saraki ran for the APC presidential ticket against
President Muhammadu Buhari; or whether he ran for the
Senate presidency against the advice of the President and
his party.
“Our concerns here are the prevailing executive intolerance,
the undermining of the institution of the National Assembly
and the overall threat to the survival of our democracy.”
The party said it took note of the dangerous trend because
the Presidency and the APC had not hidden their aversion to
the election of Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu
as Senate President and Deputy Senate President,
respectively.
The PDP spokesperson also said what was happening was
part of a larger script to commence a major onslaught
against federal lawmakers perceived to hold divergent views
to those of the Presidency, irrespective of party affiliations, a
situation that would ensure a subdued legislature.
The APC on its part accused the PDP of openly launching a
counter-offensive against the determined efforts of the
Buhari administration to rid the country of impunity and
corruption, but warned that the opposition party will fail in
its attempt to take Nigerians back to Egypt.
Its spokesman, Mr. Lai Mohammed, said, “With its statement
that is nothing but an unabashed support for impunity and
corruption, as well as its major actors, the PDP has now
confirmed itself as the official ‘poster boy’ for corruption in
Nigeria.”
APC said the long-winding sophistry about the rule of law,
democracy and personal freedoms is aimed at couching the
PDP’s abhorrence and disdain for the fight against
corruption in democratic clichés, especially now that the
battle is gradually hitting the PDP where it hurts.
The APC said,the persistent onslaught against the Buhari
administration was neither altruistic nor informed by any
belief in higher values, “because the allegations of
corruption hanging on Metuh’s neck, from within his own
party, is a clear indication that he is mortally afraid that the
wind will soon blow hard enough to expose the fowl’s
rump’’.
“Neither the PDP as a party nor its spokesman have the
moral authority to condemn anyone, least of all a President
that is working hard to rescue Nigeria from the abyss to
which it has been plunged by the former ruling party.
“For the PDP to brush aside the latest revelation that a
government it sired could not account for $700 million from
the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), or the fact that the party
could not account for billions of Naira in its own campaign
funds, and then launch a frontal attack against a reformist
government, is the height of shamelessness.
“For the ethically-challenged spokesman of the same
morally-deficient party to continue to spew trash under the
guise of opposition politics is totally provocative and
absolutely unacceptable. Worse still, the lack of focus in the
labyrinthine statements being issued by the opposition party
has confirmed the prescience of the APC’s offer to the PDP’s
spokesman to take a crash course in how to speak for the
opposition.’’
Saraki loyalists hire 1500 Islamic clerics
Supporters and loyalists of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki have engaged in vigil and fasting.
One of the conveners of the prayers, Mr. Kayode Yusuf, who
is popularly called ‘Maja,’ in an interview with our
correspondent in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Saturday,
said prayer sessions were being held all over the state,
especially in the Ilorin motropolis.
He said he had mobilised over 500 Muslim clerics while
about 1,000, including the Chief Iman of Ilorin, Mohammad
Solihu were praying in different areas in the state for
Saraki’s victory.
“Yusuf, who is the convener of ‘Maja Elders Forum’, called
on President Buhari to intervene and prevent the polity
from being over-heated.
He expressed the hope that Saraki’s travail would soon be
over.
Yusuf said, “We in Kwara are powerless. The only thing we
can do is to support him (Saraki) with prayers. We have no
money, soldiers, police or any other security apparatus. We
are just ordinary citizens of Kwara and Nigeria. But we in
Kwara, especially in Ilorin, believe in the power of prayers.
“All of us in Ilorin, including the Chief Imam of Ilorin, are
involved in the prayers. Saraki is our leader. He must not
come down. Within the short time that he was elevated as
the Senate President, we know what we have benefited from
him.
“I have mobilised more than 500 Imans and over 1,000
others are praying in different areas. They have been
praying and fasting. Even the women are praying for him.
Saraki is our benefactor. Even the uneducated do not want
anything to happen to Bukola Saraki. They are not sleeping
but are also praying. The prayers will last till Saraki’s ordeal
is over.”
In a related development, a coalition of civil society
organisations under the aegis of Heritage Centre and the
National Association of Nigerian Students have threatened
to lead mass protests to foreign embassies in Abuja to
protest alleged political vendetta being carried out against
the Senate President.
Source:www.punchng.com/news/saraki-distances-self-from-apc/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

If the Nigerian media are lazy and unprofessional how come the Nigerian people are also lazy and don't find out things for themselves?

The senate president has removed the logo for a while now and it has nothing to do with his recent trial or alleged infighting within the political clime. He removed it after he was attacked that as the senate president, he is president of the senate and not the APC.

His having the APC logo there is just like the President having a logo of the APC on his official account

Here is a link to that action

https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/643072008935358465

And the first picture says it all.

The second picture is one of The senate president saying he remains a member of the APC. You people need to stop acting ignorantly

APC, a house built on sand. PDP is taking over.

APC Should leave this saraki issue alone before it gets out of hands, Governance is what I care about, so that it won't affect the country, NIGERIA has enough issues already, personal issues should please be handled personally please.

The PDP can have him, he belongs to them in spirit, he might as well in body too.

Mynd44:
If the Nigerian media are lazy and unprofessional how come the Nigerian people are also lazy and don't find out things for themselves?
The senate president has removed the logo for a while now and it has nothing to do with his recent trial or alleged infighting within the political clime. He removed it after he was attacked that as the senate president, he is president of the senate and not the APC.
His having the APC logo there is just like the President having a logo of the APC on his official account
Here is a link to that action
https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/643072008935358465
And the first picture says it all.
The second picture is one of The senate president saying he remains a member of the APC. You people need to stop acting ignorantly

As for the Nigerian Media, add [b]irresponsible & insensitive[/b]to your qualification.

They are the reason the wailers are the way they are....

Nigeria's media are totally shameful. especially the print media.

Things fall apart .........

:PSaraki the traitor..the party never endorse you for senate presidency.Yet go against the party's decision.Down you go!!

"The Zoo MUST Fall" - Nnamdi Kanu

In your dreams... that torn umbrella that couldn't protect GEJ from returning to otuoke even with all the federal funds. E go shock you PDP won't find their feet in Nigeria again, they may disappear like AD

jcmaiah:
APC, a house built on sand. PDP is taking over.

Later some wailing fools will come on here to call Punch an APC party when a news not favoring their deluded brain is been reported.. awon ote

Mynd44:
If the Nigerian media are lazy and unprofessional how come the Nigerian people are also lazy and don't find out things for themselves?

The senate president has removed the logo for a while now and it has nothing to do with his recent trial or alleged infighting within the political clime. He removed it after he was attacked that as the senate president, he is president of the senate and not the APC.

His having the APC logo there is just like the President having a logo of the APC on his official account

Here is a link to that action

https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/643072008935358465

And the first picture says it all.

The second picture is one of The senate president saying he remains a member of the APC. You people need to stop acting ignorantly

Someone should help me tell those 'clerics' to stop that nonsense. Someone stole your money and you are now praying that God should shield him from punishment. Don't you have conscience? Do you think that God reasons like you? Let them not provoke me ooo...!

Here is the genesis Gan! gan!!

Abeg go. Tho I maintain you're innocent until proven guilty, d APC government doesn't tolerate kworruption and if u can't bear to be in such a party, a return to d party that expressly defends corruption and their national leader once publicly said stealing is not corruption is best for u. I wish u all d best buddy but wherever u go, d long arm of d law will surely catch u..... If d corruption case against u is proven

ApheeCiee........... chanji ApheeCiee.......................... chaaaaaanji

Cud dis b Joke..hw i wish dou

handie:
Abeg go. Tho I maintain you're innocent until proven guilty, d APC government doesn't tolerate kworruption and if u can't bear to be in such a party, a return to d party that expressly defends corruption and their national leader once publicly said stealing is not corruption is best for u. I wish u all d best buddy but wherever u go, d long arm of d law will surely catch u..... If d corruption case against u is proven

Dnt be an hypocrite sir both parties have corrupt members buts its just PMB that is seen as a man of intergrity

Atlantian:
"The Zoo MUST Fall" - Nnamdi Kanu

If u are still living in the Zoo and working,You are a big F00L.

It gets more interesting if Saraki wins his case and decamps.

U don't bite d finger that feeds U, good radiance to bad rubbish

I pray he leaves and NEVER comes back.

Still thinking what negative effect this could have on the naming and confirmation of ministers.

Watch it, the Commander in Chief Wailers Union of Nairaland will create a thread on reading the second paragraph of this post, saying all what is happening is just a plot by Baba to default on his own deadline to form his cabinet, and his minions would applaud his "political sagacity".

Just look out guys.

He should join pdp and never come back.






Party supremacy and discipline is all we preach.

omenka:
I pray he leaves and NEVER comes back.

Still thinking what negative effect this could have on the naming and confirmation of ministers.

Watch it, the Commander in Chief Wailers Union of Nairaland will create a thread on reading the second paragraph of this post, saying all what is happening is just a plot by Baba to default on his own deadline to form his cabinet, and have his minions applaud his "political sagacity". Just look out guys.

[size=20pt]you are talking about the vulnerable protection seeker. He's empty, you know.[/size]

Very Good we dont need him. Let him return back to pdp after he serves his 10yrs of no active participation in nigeria politics. Rest in Peace if you can!

Mynd44:
If the Nigerian media are lazy and unprofessional how come the Nigerian people are also lazy and don't find out things for themselves?

The senate president has removed the logo for a while now and it has nothing to do with his recent trial or alleged infighting within the political clime. He removed it after he was attacked that as the senate president, he is president of the senate and not the APC.

His having the APC logo there is just like the President having a logo of the APC on his official account

Here is a link to that action

https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/643072008935358465

And the first picture says it all.

The second picture is one of The senate president saying he remains a member of the APC. You people need to stop acting ignorantly

Wow. Nice observation. Was indeed thinking this happened yesterday.

Smh.

Mynd44:
If the Nigerian media are lazy and unprofessional how come the Nigerian people are also lazy and don't find out things for themselves?

The senate president has removed the logo for a while now and it has nothing to do with his recent trial or alleged infighting within the political clime. He removed it after he was attacked that as the senate president, he is president of the senate and not the APC.

His having the APC logo there is just like the President having a logo of the APC on his official account

Here is a link to that action

https://twitter.com/bukolasaraki/status/643072008935358465

And the first picture says it all.

The second picture is one of The senate president saying he remains a member of the APC. You people need to stop acting ignorantly

I'd suggest you created a separate thread for this and have it pushed to the front page to expose the misinformation of the mass media- though some of us care less the time he took the action. Just do it for the purpose of enlightenment.

Thanks.

omenka:
I'd suggest you created a separate thread for this and have it pushed to the front page to expose the misinformation of the mass media- though some of us care less the time he took the action. Just do it for the purpose of enlightenment.

Thanks.

I don't care about educating people who are gullible enough to swallow whatever they see. You can create it if you care to.

People/sites can keep spreading all sorts of false news. I just hope everyone has enough money to hire lawyers for their libel suits

"The bring him down" syndrome is a big problem in our dear country, Nigeria.

I'm loving this HD Nigerian movie titled Saraki vs APC.

Where I keep my pop corn from last night sef?!