Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Saturday, made shocking revelation of how he was almost abducted on Tuesday, June 9,
2015 about the time that 8th Senate was inaugurated and he became Senate President.
Speaking at his maiden press conference as Senate President,
Saraki revealed that as at 4 am, he got information that the leadership of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) in concert with APC lawmakers opposed to his
candidacy had concluded plans for him not to get to the Assembly complex.
His words:
“First of all, as regards the meeting (at ICC),
on the morning of the inauguration, I didn’t finish meeting until 4.00am of
that day and I had got information that efforts would likely be made to make
sure that I didn’t get access into the chambers.
“So, as early as 4:00am and 5:00am, I had made contingency
plans that I must get into the National Assembly because the plan before was
that Senators-elect should go to the Transcorp Hilton Hotel around 8:00clock
and 9:00am to proceed to the National Assembly.
“But I was advised that it would not be safe or secure for
me to do that because some people would make sure if I didn’t get into the
chambers, it would not be possible for me to be nominated, for the nomination
to be seconded and for me and to accept the nomination.
“I can tell you today, that I was in the National Assembly
Complex as early as 6.00am in the morning and I stayed in a car in the Car
Park, from 6.00 in the morning till quarter to 10.00am. This is the truth. I
stayed there and I was there with no communication whatsoever.
“So, anybody who said they spoke to me to go the ICC was not
true because I didn’t even know what was going on. All I was monitoring was how
people were arriving the Complex.
”It was at quarter to 10:00 I got information that the Clerk
to the National Assembly had entered the chamber.
“So, I got out of the small car I was inside, stretched
myself and put on my Babariga because I didn’t have it on before then.
”I walked from the Car Park into the chambers…That was why
some of you would have seen that I looked very tired on that morning.
“Even when I was in the chambers, I didn’t know what had
transpired earlier on. The only thing I observed was that it appeared that some
of our Senators were not in the chamber but the fact that my colleagues arrived
in batches; I had the opinion that they were on the way and by 10:00am, the
programme started.
“Before I knew it, my election had come and gone. Even my
people were worried; it was only when I got into the chambers that they were
relieved.”
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