The All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the ongoing investigation of the leadership of the Senate was not to witch hunt any body, urging the Police to prosecute senators found to be culpable in the forgery of Standing Rules of the Red Chamber.
The party’s Publicity Secretary in Lagos State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday night, said there were more questions the principal officers and officials of the National Assembly needed to be asked.
According to him, “What happened on June 9, 2015, was an illegality that is not known in law. Out of 108 senators, only (the Senate President) Bukola Saraki and (his deputy) Ike Ekweremadu, the clerk and one or two others knew how they changed the 2011 Senate Rule to make it possible for 57 senators to go into the purported election without 51 members.
“Again, it is the clerk of the Senate that will tell the world why he had to read the proclamation letter from the President (Muhammadu Buhari) when 51 senators were absent. Was there a role call to make sure that everybody was present before taking the crucial decision? Nobody is trying to witch hunt anybody,” he stated.
Noting that the election that produced Saraki and Ekweremadu as leaders of the Senate is “an illegality, open robbery and a nullity,” the party spokesman said, “The truth is that the so-called election never took place. Nothing happened.”
Igbokwe further warned that any “real” APC member who participated in the fraud of the June 9, 2015, should know that he had betrayed the struggle for change in Nigeria, which, according to him, led to the death of many Nigerians and loss of material resources since 1999.
“They have joined the enemies of change to render nugatory all our efforts to build a new Nigeria. They are Quislings,” he said, adding that, “I want the Police to do a thorough investigation and get all those who forged the so-called 2015 Senate Rule to steal the Senate leadership on June 9, 2015.
“What happened in the Senate was not only strange but an aberration and the law must be allowed to take its full course. This is our irreducible minimum demand,” the party said.
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