Read the press statement below...
The attention of the Media Office of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki has been drawn to a press statement released by a group
known as the Citizen United For Peace and Stability (CUPS), Titled
Security Alert! - Bukola Saraki finally declares war on the Nigerian Senate.
The report by CUPS stated that some unnamed sources told them that
Senator Bukola Saraki has made plans to disrupt his ongoing trial at the
Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) by making use of thugs through some key
personalities from Kwara State.
The statement is false, malicious and aimed at further denigrating the
hard-earned image of Senator Bukola Saraki after their planned sponsored
protest failed through earlier awareness to the general public of their
sinister moves.
It is worrisome that aggrieved politicians opposed to Saraki's emergence
as the Senate President, having failed to remove him, now resort to
cheap blackmail by concocting lies under the disguise of "unidentified
sources ".
The individuals mentioned in the statement to be planning the sinister
move, are prominent Nigerians who respect the rule of law and stand
strongly behind the Senate President. In this regard, this is a cheap
attempt to intimidate supporters of the Senate President.
It will be recalled that this same mischievous group called CUPS had
earlier circulated messages at different times requesting for funds for
different non existent political gatherings.
The CUPS has been in the habit of peddling falsehood and deceiving
unsuspecting Nigerians as the body has not lived up to its name of
maintaining 'peace' and 'stability.'
Senator Bukola Saraki is a law abiding citizen who has demonstrated the
utmost respect for the judicial system by taking the pain to attend and
defend himself at the Tribunal even though the trial is believed to be
borne out of malice and political persecution.
Moreover, Senator Saraki, despite his trial at the CCT has continued to
perform his constitutional duties as the Senate President elected by
his peers.
It is therefore a gratuitous insult to the Office of the Senate
President, and the personalities of the patrotic and decent individuals
mentioned in the concocted lies by this organisation to link them with
tales of acts of gangsterism and violation of temple of justice.
This propaganda by his political opponents is not new and we urge law
abiding citizens to disregard the body, its sponsors and promoters. This
is the time to for everybody to forget our narrow, self-serving
interest, dissuade the manipulation of state institutions to achieve
personal and partisan objectives and ensure that rule of law prevails as
prerequisite towards the entrenchment of our democratic tenets.
Signed:
Bamikole Omishore
SA (New Media)
Office Of The Senate President.
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