The Senate President, Bukola
Saraki Wednesday declared that his occupation of the office of the presidency
of the Senate was not ceded to him by the ruling All Progressives Congress,
APC, but through an election by senators.
He made the declaration while
briefing newsmen across the world over the siege to the National Assembly by
operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS.
His reaction followed the
persistent calls by the ruling party for him to relinquish his official
position as Senate President given the fact that he recently defected the APC
to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Responding to this demand, he
said, “I was not made the Senate President solely by the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, but through my contest and victory in the election
of the Senate presidency conducted by the upper chamber.
“It was a mandate by all the
lawmakers from different political platforms.
“The position by the rule of the
parliament is not a preserve of any political party even not on whether or not
the party in majority. But the collective majority of individual members of the
parliament across party lines.”
Saraki, however, maintained that
his emergence and occupation of the office was by the extant rule and his
removal as being plotted by some disaffected members must also come through the
same rule.
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