The
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the
invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa
robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve
political purpose.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the
Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara
State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution
(DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at
scoring cheap political points.
Full text of the statement:
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Full
text of the statement:
Saraki
and Idris
“I have
been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a ploy
to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members
from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). “It was also said that
if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called
defection plan.
“While I
continue to maintain that the issue of my position on the 2019 elections is not
a personal decision for me alone to make, it should be noted that all these
concoctions and evil plot cannot deter me. Those behind this fresh assault will
fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter
for that matter.
“I am
aware that following a request made by the Police on June 13, 2018 to the
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation had written a legal
advice dated June 22, 2018, in which he stated on page 5, paragraph (f) that
“For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor, this office is unable
to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the
alleged office and the suspects”.
“The
Police have obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the
Offa robbery incident. They have turned it into an instrument for the party in
power to suppress perceived opponents, witch-hunt issue for blackmailing people
from freely choosing which platform on which they want to pursue their ambition
and a matter for harassing the people whose exit from APC would harm the
chances of the party in the forthcoming elections. ” I want to make it apparent
that I have no hand in either the robbery incident or any criminal acitivity.
The
Police in their haste to embarrass me sent the invitation to me at 8pm and
requested that I report to the station by 8am tomorrow morning. This obviously
demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry.
“They also stated in today’s letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018
to their own letter written on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding
simply to the contents of the letter and that the full text of the statement
made by the arrested suspects which they claimed indicted me was not made
available to me, they were now including the suspects statements in the current
letter. Yet, instead of including the suspects’ statements, they only attached
two copies of my own letter to the invitation.
No
suspects statement was made available. “This plot aimed at compelling me and my
associates to stay in a party where members are criminalised without just
cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the highest level and where there is
no respect for constitutionalism is an exercise in futility and it will fail.
The President of the
Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him
by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery
investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve
political purpose.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,
Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the
Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in
Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of
Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to
invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/offa-robbery-police-invitation-a-mere-political-game-saraki/
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/offa-robbery-police-invitation-a-mere-political-game-saraki/
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