Name alleged abductors, pro-Lawan senators Challenges Saraki

Senators who are loyal to the Senator Ahmad Lawan caucus have challenged the Senate President; Bukola Saraki to prove his allegation that he was targeted for abduction on the day the National Assembly was inaugurated.

The senators maintained that Saraki should prove his claim beyond reasonable doubt by naming those allegedly behind the abduction he claimed.

Speaking under the aegis of Senate Unity Forum, the senators,who noted that they would not join issues with Saraki for now,however said his proof of the allegation was necessary so that they can reply him properly.

In a very brief reaction to Saraki’s allegation, through their spokesman, Senator Kabiru Marafa, APC ,  Zamfara Central, the Lawan-for-Senate President senators tasked Saraki to name those who wanted to abduct him before getting full reaction to his allegation.

Saraki had at an interview with journalists last weekend in Abuja, alleged that before the inauguration of the 8th Senate on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, there were plans by some big guns within the party, stridently opposed to his aspiration as President of the 8th Senate, to abduct him as a way of preventing him from attending the inauguration and personally accepting his nomination for the position.

According to Saraki at the interview as widely reported in the print media on Sunday, he escaped the abduction allegedly planned against him that day by refusing to report at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel where all federal lawmakers elect , were billed to gather at 8:am for onward movement to the National Assembly.

He said in the interview that rather joining his colleagues at Transcorp Hilton Hotel at the slated time, he moved faster than everybody by getting to the premises of the National Assembly as early as 6:am that