Leadership of the Senate on Friday said that it shut down activities on Thursday in solidarity with its President, Bukola Saraki, because of circumstances surrounding his ongoing assets declaration trial. Deputy Leader of the Senate, Ibn Na’Allah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the senate believed that rather than prosecution, Saraki was being persecuted, hence the level of solidarity from the lawmakers. According to Na’Allah, majority of the senators believe that the trial of the president of the senate by the Code of Conduct Tribunal is in no way a prosecution. “You see, it is a matter of belief and I am going to tell you in very clear language. “The belief of the 8th Senate and substantial number of the senators is that the trial of the President of the Senate is persecution rather than prosecution. “If it is persecution, we believe that we have a responsibility to stand by him. “But if it is prosecution, every senator of the federal republic believes and rightly so, that this government must be given all the necessary assistance it requires to fight corruption,’’ he said. He argued that Saraki’s trial for alleged offences he committed 13 years ago was more of a political move than a legal or anti-corruption matter. Maintaining that the senators felt that Saraki was on political trial, Na’Allah said that all the senators could not be wrong at the same time. “Let me be honest with you; from the little that I know, the senate sees the trial as more of a political trial than a trial intended specifically for the purpose for which it should be done. “It may be wrong, it may be right, but the circumstances of the trial and for the reason that the subject matter of the trial occurred about 12 or 13 years ago, you cannot fault the senators if they come to that conclusion.


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Well said deputy majority leader!!! The persecution of the distinguished senate president must be resisted by all lovers of democracy!!! Say no to dictatorship!!!

Saraki will go down finally.................saraki should learn 4m jonathan and jimi agbaje..........don't allow noise maker to send u to exile.....resign now.....resign now......or hence u will endup in jail