SaharaReporters has learned from presidency sources that Senate President Bukola Saraki has formed an alliance with a cabal within the Aso Rock Villa determined on confusion and disorder rather than witness Acting President Yemi Osinbajo assume full presidential powers.

The new balance of forces emerges as the cabal has found it impracticable in the past few weeks to bring back ailing President Muhammadu Buhari to the country.

Buhari's doctors continue to insist he cannot function or run Nigeria in his present state of health, but the cabal, which is using ethnicity and religious sentiments to foment deep-seated animosity against the Acting President, has continued to explore its options.

To that end, it met recently in Saudi Arabia with Mr. Saraki, led by Isa Funtua, a failed businessman who was owner of now bankrupt Bullet Construction Company, while Saraki led some senators. Also in the Senate President’s group were Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu, a former Bauchi State Governor and ex-chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party chairman who fled Nigerian on exile, as well as Bala Mohammed, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory who is undergoing trial for money laundering.

Our sources say the cabal held several meetings with Saraki’s team, the senators included having been sponsored to the lesser hajj on fat allowances from the coffers of the National Assembly.

At the meeting, the cabal decided on a number of options to force Acting President Osinbajo out of power. The options include bringing Mr. Buhari to Nigeria in whatever condition he might be. That plan was to use the gravely sick president’s presence to implement their agenda by
insisting he is not the first leader to become sick in office, citing those countries whose leaders were sick but remained in office.

That option created difficulties on account of Buhari's precarious condition, including lapses of lucidity. Sometimes, says one of our
sources, the president does not even remember where he is. Besides, Buhari often loses his voice as a side effect of one of the drugs prescribed for him by UK doctors.

A second option considered by the cabal was to force Mr. Osinbajo to accept current Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, as the Vice President. In that event, the cabal would prevail on President Buhari to resign, provided that Mr. Osinbajo agreed to drop all corruption cases against senators and withdraw the Federal Government’s appeal against a verdict of the Code of Conduct Tribunal that cleared Mr. Saraki of charges that he violated asset declaration laws. In addition, Mr. Osinbajo would commit to remove Ibrahim Magu from the chairmanship of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

One source said Mr. Saraki was opposed to the plan as he aspires to become the VP so as to be assured of immunity from prosecution. However,
cabal members favor Mr. Malami because they consider him somebody who comes from the “core north” and would be more acceptable to their base, a profile Saraki does not fit.

The third option weighed by the cabal was to create enough political crisis in the country as to provoke a military takeover of power. However, that option proved problematic when Western diplomats sternly signaled that they would not accept a military coup in Nigeria as such an intervention could lead to Nigeria's break up. Even so, one of our sources said the cabal members had not altogether abandoned that option.

On his return from the hajj, Mr. Saraki held several meetings with senators loyal to him and directed them not to entertain any motion calling for Mr. Buhari's resignation unless his own position as the prospective VP was assured. On his part, Mr. Isa Funtua met with numerous northern politicians, powerful civil servants and military officers and warned that the North could not afford to “lose power” to the Yoruba. He reminded them that, when former President Umaru Yar’Adua died, the North ceded power to Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw man they thought would be easy to manipulate. However, within a few months of assuming the presidency, Mr. Jonathan, he claimed, gave all the important appointments “to his people.” He stated that the Yoruba were
way too smart to be left with power for the remainder of Mr. Buhari's term.

It is to be noted that the sudden resurgence on Tuesday of senators’ obsession with removing Mr. Magu was not a coincidence. Some top National Assembly sources revealed that the demand for Magu to be fired was the first salvo in a planned set of orchestrated moves meant to subvert the Nigerian constitution and avert a potential Osinbajo presidency.

Osinbajo's offense, according to the sources, is that he has stood solidly behind the President in the nomination and preference of Mr. Magu as EFCC Chairman.

The situation on Tuesday was so bad that while Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe was moving a motion asking the Senate to declare Saraki “Acting President,” Mr. Osinabjo was already back in Abuja from his trip to the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

Apparently, Abaribe and Senator Kabir Marafa did not know, and Saraki shut down the motion pretending as though he had no prior knowledge of it. However, several Senate sources told SaharaReporters that Saraki had simply forgotten to inform Abaribe and others involved in the plot that Osinbajo had returned to Abuja overnight.

What Nigerians saw on Tuesday at the Senate was part of the pre-arranged onslaughts against Osinbajo that were decided in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the cabal and the Senate President’s team.

In keeping with the agreements reached at their meetings in Saudi Arabia, Senator Saraki and members of the cabal will in the next few weeks continue to heat up the system and provoke disorder, in the hope of encouraging a military coup.

The two groups’ fourth option is to cause enough problems for Osinbajo that he will quietly resign because the coalition against him believes he is not a politically ambitious person. That silent option is known as the "Shonekan option," referring to how Ernest Shonekan was eased out by General Sani Abacha in 1993 shortly after former President Ibrahim Babangida was forced out by a military cabal in the wake of his annulment of the June 12 elections.

Under any of the options, a source confided that Saraki believes that sooner or later, the presidency will be his to pluck.

One Presidency source asserted that cabal members who will provide logistics for the move against Mr. Osinbajo include the current Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawan Daura, who is said to be fully bothered about his own fate because of tons of insider DSS petitions and queries about him in the past and now. It is believed Saraki has offered him protection and retention in office under the new deal.

Daura is also expected to clamp down on social media and target social media users including SaharaReporters. To achieve this objective, Daura has reportedly sent a whole team of DSS operatives to Russia to figure out how to achieve a social media shutdown.

The Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who became the cabal's arrowhead, is said to have become somewhat more cautions, even becoming close to Osinbajo, but our sources say this is a strategy to elude scrutiny and suffer less pressure from the media, especially as it has become clear Buhari may not return very soon, or in good health. In the words of an Aso Rock source, "He has become much more circumspect these days."

But the Senate President, according to one principal Senate principal officer, is "now the one calling the shots, calling meetings of service chiefs at his residence to dish out instructions that ought to be coming from the Acting President because some of the representatives of the cabal he met with in Saudi Arabia told him they would prefer him to be the next president."

A senator who pleaded anonymity said the preference for Saraki is simply based on their shared horror of allowing Osinbajo to clinch power with Magu as EFCC chairman. While the members from both sides try to couch the rhetoric in ethnic terms, according to him, "the real driving force behind this new working arrangement is that Saraki will be the first politician to create a thief paradise much like IBB of years past."

Although not trusted by many of the Senate's principal officials, Saraki continues to wield considerable influence because of the amount of resources and money he has made available to the officials, including financial gifts to a number of senators using official and personal means.

Indeed the Senate President, who was heavily implicated in the Panama Papers, is also believed to have stolen at least N3.5 billion from the Paris Club refunds in recent weeks. While two other governors indicted in stealing part of the funds have quickly made refunds after they failed to get the protection they sought from the presidency, Saraki has simply refused to return his own part of the loot. And this partly explains his resolve to fight harder now, an informed source explained.

He asked: "We know Saraki is wily and full of treachery, everyone knows that, but what do you expect some of us to do if he asks for our support? But Nigerians are not fools, the people will sort him out.”

The source went on: "Don't you remember how this man - Saraki - even ruthlessly outwitted his own father and sister? The man is currently not on speaking terms with Gbemisola Saraki and his brother Olaolu. Or even more recently did you not see what he did to Senator Ali Ndume? Ndume is still sitting in one corner sulking today."

That source said, "What the Aso Rock cabal don't know about Saraki is that if he gets what he really wants that is 2019 presidency ticket, he would deal with even the cabal members first, particularly the DG, SSS."

According to that particular Senator, "As we speak, Saraki has the case files against the DG, SSS, including reports of how the Chief of Staff Kyari and Mamman Daura handled some oil deals—especially strategic oil deals involving UAE early in the administrations—without the knowledge of the president. When the president found out through the UAE government, he was alarmed. Saraki has details of all these."

But another source in the Senate concluded as follows: "Why these people are able to run rings and play around the Buhari-Osinbajo presidency is because the president has simply refused to use its huge but informal arsenal to deal with either the Senate President or members of the Aso Rock Cabal."

Already, Nigerians on social media have been very loud in their condemnation of the Senate President, many of them hoping the presidency will act to call a spade a spade and rid the nation of these foxes. Said one: “Somebody has to do it, this nation is bleeding politically, this is needless and a waste of precious time."

To counter social media condemnation and backlash, Saraki has set up a number of trolls operating principally from the APC headquarters in Ilorin and Abuja, and through paid journalists and social media influencers, with the objective of advancing his narrative and halting the assumption to the presidency of a man he once dismissed as a mere "commissioner" when Mr. Osinbajo invited him to a meeting in the early days of the Buhari Presidency.

It is also understood that Saraki and his Senate friends are working assiduously to use oil marketers to create a fuel scarcity that would bring about great hardship and possibly kickstart the disorder he hopes to achieve. Those marketers have been engaging in secret meetings where they insist the federal government must pay them N650 billion in unverified debt. Senator Dino Melaye and one Senator Philip Aduda are helping to set up the fuel sabotage that would lead to the scarcity.

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The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. Even ojukwu with his military experience tried and failed. Who the hell is kanu? One Nigeria we shall remain

Saraki, right from the very day he assumed that position, has done absolutely nothing but constituted himself into a clog in the wheel of progress of this administration.

I have no idea the kind of deal that was struck between the so called cabal and himself that lead the CCT to declaring him innocent. But with this report, one doesn't need a soothsayer to tell them he is now fulfilling his own end of the agreement.

When the bow breaks and the cradle falls, we the people always seem to be the subjects holding the hotter end of the rod. It is so unfortunate the country has become so polarised along ethnic and religious lines that any intended mass action as was witnessed in 2010 would be nearly impossible!

Osinbajo needs to man up and begin to assert himself. Even if we can't have a consensus we can at least build enough support across the divides to ensure the baying vultures get our message.

I've got this queer feeling the President isn't even aware what is going on between the various power blocks in his admin.

Watch how the sophisticated souls wail on this thread




No Niger deltan or easterner should pity them

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces.

Nonsense. Are you a child? This government that does not obey court orders will have respect for the constitution? For your information this government created the opportunity for the rise of Nnamdi Kanu. Everything that is happening is a sequence of events started by the Buhari led APC government.

You better dig your head out of the sand from wherever you buried it and face the reality that they will fight Osinbanjo to the last before he is sworn in as Nigeria's president.

I always say it

that man is a greedy selfishand cunning snake

Mere looking at the senate president gives the impression the man is a hardened con and he knows if the acting president becomes the commander in chief till 2019, his secrets will be reveal hence loosing power.

His agenda with his fellow wicked cohorts will fail by God's grace and come to think of it, this wicked soul destroyed the once booming ilorin city to a nightmare arena. He riddled under his father's wimp to deceive kwarans just like the way he is using his camouflage skills to get to power at all cost.

This is someone who enjoys the width of wealth under PDP/APC rule and this is someone we should channel our frustration on and his likes but instead senseless agitation is what we are seeing.

For how long are we going to keep quiet on these wicked men?

Pls lalasticala, kindly push this to front page

Fear saraki.....

From the days of SGBN, he has always shown to do and undo and does not care whose ox is gored as long as he gets his way..

But this article is so much tilted to put him in bad light.

A lot is wrong at the moment in this country, if fuel crisis comes up at this N145 price coupled with recession as alledged... osibanjo should just forget it, hunger has no loyalty.

I only pity those chanting one Nigeria. and those shouting restructuring please ask yourself what are we restructuring? the system is bad and this one Nigeria Morgan is holding us hostages.

let us divide and go our separate ways. from there we will know the region that's holding the rest back all this while.

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. One Nigeria we shall remain

So your childish, and probably bought, brain told you this is just "heating up the polity?"

Why are you trying to turn people's minds away from bukola saraki and happenings in Abuja?

Try all you can, saraki will find out that he is wasting his money in paying you to change the narrative in his favour.

#WickedGeneration

Osinbanjo is solely to be blamed for any confrontation that is brewing between him and the Senate.

He just rushed in with his useless lawyer briefcase to defend the cabal's undermining of the Senate and their constitutional role without knowing that it is the same cabal that wants his office to be at logger heads with the same Senate.

The Saraki Cabal conspiracy being painted by Sahara reporters is far from the truth and will only make osinbanjo look more pathetic and weak.

GEJ's hapless situation in 2009 did elicit wide public support but GEJ did not rely solely on the Plebs to become installed as acting President but rather began series of consultations, lobbying and dialogue with the Senate.

In 2017, Osinbanjo's pathetic weak position will not elicit wide support from Nigerians groaning under series of unrest, civil war and boko haram fulani savages, rather Nigerians will demand he gets booted put of office just as they did to GEJ in 2015 primarily over Boko Haram.

Osinbanjo should grow some balls and use whatever brain he still has.

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. One Nigeria we shall remain

Jesus christ! You Afonjas have no brains.

How in God's name is Kanu any part of your current disgrace?

You remember constitution now but at one time where calling for suspension of the constitution and for your Buhari to assume supreme powers.

The same Buhari whom committed an act of treason back in 1983 and suspended same constitution!

We will use constitutional means and remove that lame duck and there is nothing whatsoever you guys will do in your wasteland

ImadeUReadThis:


Jesus christ! You Afonjas have no brains.

How in God's name is Kanu any part of your current disgrace?

You remember constitution now but at one time where calling for suspension of the constitution and for your Buhari to assume supreme powers.

The same Buhari whom committed an act of treason back in 1983 and suspended same constitution!

We will use constitutional means and remove that lame duck and there is nothing whatsoever you guys will do in your wasteland

Imagine an empty, nameless, inconsequential and insignificant flaaaathead commenter on social media boasting of removing an acting president

aso rock cabal and saraki cabal should knwn dat osinbajo is nt alone..............its educated man nd spiritual man,obj,tinubu and all southwest pastors nd prophets behinde him...all there moves will fail

achieverme:


Imagine an empty, nameless, inconsequential and insignificant flaaaathead commenter on social media boasting of removing an acting president

Thank God you know osinbanjo as an acting President.

Plays over.

Osinbanjo will take a bow and leave the stage.

reuben79:
aso rock cabal and saraki cabal should knwn dat osinbajo is nt alone..............its educated man nd spiritual man,obj,tinubu and all southwest pastors nd prophets behinde him...all there moves will fail

When I said that all Afonjas can do for osinbanjo is to gbaduraah una call me a troll.

Go and whip up your candles and big bibles

APCHaram:




Let Us pray for President Osinbajo, let us pray for Nigeria , let us pray for peace



Sharabara raba daba Scrooby doo!

Gbadura in scooby doo voice

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. One Nigeria we shall remain

so if dey are calling people dat av sense
u ur self will come out
Don't let ur hatred on igbos give u sleepless nights
How does Biafra relates with dis news now

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. One Nigeria we shall remain

No brain in skull

its not what the Constitution thinks, the fundamental question is, is osibanjo fit in all ramification to be the president of Nigeria? my answer is no, a Christian pastor who could not say a word when CRK is being abolished and replaced with arabic studies,even when Christians were slaughtered across the the country by muslims, is not fit to be president, a houseboy who acts according to the dictates of his master, is not fit to be president, this is a fact! Osibanjo must not be president! and if you quote me otherwise instead of supporting me..... make thunder and stray bullet from no where blast you before 12pm today!

Sahara reporter claim looks plausible

reuben79:
aso rock cabal and saraki cabal should knwn dat osinbajo is nt alone..............its educated man nd spiritual man,obj,tinubu and all southwest pastors nd prophets behinde him...all there moves will fail

No more ojota rallies for fear of brutal buruntai.

Let us head to church, mosques and sango shrine

Item list for Osunbade Presidency prayer, Prayer Theme : The north must not try nonsense

1. Candles

2. Piece of red cloth

3. Olive oil

4. Holy water to be purchased from nearest Cele parish

5. One hen (fattened)

6. Incense (one packet)

7. Recharge card (for online prayer) 500 naira minimum

8. Special tithe

9. Holy Bible (yoruba version)

Thanks for this Report. I hope the Supreme Court will keep this as "Exhibit One" when the bubble busts.
Like it was said in the Text, "Nigerians are not Fools".

MediumStout:
The Constitution is clear on who becomes president if the seat is declared vacant. Osinbajo will soon be sworn in as Commander in chief of Armed forces if Buhari cannot continue to lead the country. Let's stop heating up the polity but rather focus on the ravaging mad man called Nnamdi Kanu whose present treasonous actions like his predecessor Ojukwu could trigger a second civil war if not curtailed. Nnamdi Kanu and his myriads of frustrated IPOB youths are constituting nuisances all over the east. The DSS and federal government should take actions before it's too late. Nnamdi Kanu can only be stopped by putting him back in prison. His release reignited the present madness we are witnessing. Nigeria's Unity is not negotiable. No group or entity will be allowed to break or destabilize the unity and diversity of the Nigerian state. Biafra will never become reality. One Nigeria we shall remain

Putting Kanu in prison the first time was a grave error. A second attempt might precipitate the catastrophe we all hope to avoid.

If Nigeria is restructured unto the path of greatness today Kanu helped bring about that. Suddenly all regions have found their voices.

No matter what political chess game going on in Abuja. Any attempt to subvert the constitution leads to doom

orisa37:
Thanks for this Report. I hope the Supreme Court will keep this as "Exhibit One" when the bubble busts.
Like it was said in the Text, "Nigerians are not Fools".

Count the courts out.

When the likes of Osinbanjo and Falana where waging war on the judiciary on behest of their despot Buhari you no talk now you are seeking final reprieve from the same judiciary?

The Senate will begin proceedings to impeach osinbanjo and no court will stop them from carrying out their constitutional role.

For good measure both the dead Buhari and osinbanjo will be removed from office for gross incompetence and there is nothing whatsoever you can do about it.

aolawale025:



No matter what political chess game going on in Abuja. Any attempt to subvert the constitution leads to doom

Nothing will happen as the Senate will follow due process and impeach both the already long dead Buhari and his lame duck VP and nobody will cry for them apart from a few loud sobs coming from Bourdillion

omenka:
Saraki, right from the very day he assumed that position, has done absolutely nothing but constituted himself into a clog in the wheel of progress of this administration.

I have no idea the kind of deal that was struck between the so called cabal and himself that lead the CCT to declaring him innocent. But with this report, one doesn't need a soothsayer to tell them he is now fulfilling his own end of the agreement.

When the bow breaks and the cradle falls, we the people always seem to be the subjects holding the hotter end of the rod. It is so unfortunate the country has become so polarised along ethnic and religious lines that any intended mass action as was witnessed in 2010 would be nearly impossible!

Osinbajo needs to man up and begin to assert himself. Even if we can't have a consensus we can at least build enough support across the divides to ensure the baying vultures get our message.

I've got this queer feeling the President isn't even aware what is going on between the various power blocks in his admin.

Life of 2diff ppl, follower of Jesus and follower of Muhamed

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