The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC of plotting to bribe Senators in the National Assembly to avoid Parliamentary Sanctions such as Impeachment following the suspension of the Chief justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.
Below is a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbodiyan, made available to PoliticsNGR;
“The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts of moves by certain agents of the
Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to bribe Senators of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) extraction to protect embattled President Buhari from
imminent parliamentary sanctions for constitutional breaches and gross
misconduct.
Intelligence available to the PDP shows that this is
the reason the jittery Presidency had summoned all APC senators to the
Presidential Villa to a clandestine meeting on Monday night, ahead of
the Senate’s resumption on Tuesday.
The PDP have been informed of
how the Buhari Presidency has been unsettled following national and
international outcry over his constitutional breaches, particularly the
assault on the judiciary in his attempt to forcefully remove the Chief
Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and impose a pliable
CJN to do his bidding.
President Buhari is not only apprehensive
that the Senate might sanction him for violating the constitution and
usurping its statutory duties regarding the handling of issues related
to a CJN, the parliament might also open an inquest into how President
Buhari, who parades as Mr. Integrity, allegedly procured an Order from
the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) upon which he announced the illegal
suspension of the CJN.
There are reports that the said order is
suspicious and subject to investigation, being not argued or issued in
the open court; following which a distressed Buhari Presidency now seeks
to corrupt and undermine the Senate.
The PDP has been made aware
of how money has been moved from the coffers of the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC) to bribe the APC senators, as well as how
each APC senator has been offered huge sums of money in foreign currency
to engage in heckling during the session, particularly when the matter
is raised.
However, the PDP wants the APC senators to note that
the issue at hand is not partisan; it is not even about Justice Walter
Onnoghen, but about nationhood, as well as the protection of our
democracy and constitution from despotism.
The Buhari Presidency
is bent on corrupting our democratic institutions but Nigerians are
watching the action of our lawmakers at this critical time.”
Source:- Politicsngr
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