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
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