Security agencies early Tuesday
morning laid siege on the homes of Mr Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike
Ekweremadu in Abuja.
The move is said to be a ploy to
prevent them from making it to the National Assembly today because of a plan by
many lawmakers to decamp from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr Saraki, however, made his way
to the Senate chamber at about 10:40 a.m. and presided over the plenary. Mr
Ekweremadu did not make it to plenary and the siege on his home was still on at
midday.
Reacting to a motion on the siege
on his home and that of his deputy, Mr Saraki said the plenary would not have
held if not for his preparation.
“The road leading to my place was
cordoned off and all cars coming in and out as early as 6:30 were being stopped
and you have to come down.
“My convoy was stopped from
moving. Given something that one was prepared for, I had my own car too. So the
deputy senate president called me and said he could not come here.
“And as you are all aware, very
late yesterday, at about 8 p.m., I received a letter asking me to report to the
police on a case of this Offa robbery which had been concluded before now.
“That’s the situation why the DSP
could not come here and I was already going somewhere else. If not, this
plenary would not have been able to hold today. So I had to come here.”
Mr Saraki condemned the siege
saying it was God that made him escape it.
“But as you all rightly said, if
one of our colleagues cannot come out for no fault of his, I don’t see how we
can continue to sit and ignore the fact that a presiding officer cannot be
here.
“And if it was by the plan, I
too, would not be here.
“It was just by the intervention
of the almighty God that I was able to get myself here.”
Mr Saraki eventually presided
over the Senate and announced the defection of 15 senators away from the APC.
The senate president was,
however, not among those that defected.
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