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| Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. |
The Presidency has blamed recent happenings in the polity on President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
In an article Friday evening by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the Political
Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari in the Office of the Vice
President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the presidency insinuated that Saraki
had been working with retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the
Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
In the article, titled: “Fifth columnists in our recent history,”
Ojudu alluded to some of the happenings during the military regime,
which Buhari led, allegedly committed by some of the former General’s
lieutenants, but which they ended up heaping on him as reasons for
overthrowing him.
Ojudu wrote: “They hired a band of boys within the security to
proceed to the house of the revered leader of the Yorubas, Chief Obafemi
Awolowo.
“In the middle of the night the boys sacked the house, forced their
way into his bedroom, ransacked everywhere and broke down his ward robe.
“They claimed they were sent by the then Head of State General
Muhammadu Buhari to go look for some confidential documents acquired
illegally by the Chief.
“The Yorubas and other sympathizer of Buhari were outraged. That was
the end of the romance between the anti corruption duo of Buhari and
General Tunde Idiagbon and the people.
“They didn’t stop at that they sent another band of marauders to
Kaduna. Destination was the home of the Islamic cleric, Alhaji Gumi.
Their goal: embarrass the much respected cleric and set the Muslims
against the regime. They succeeded at this as well.
“A couple of months thereafter when they struck and overthrew the
regime, these were listed among the offenses committed by General
Buhari. The people having been deceived applauded them and Buhari
adjudged high handed, brutal and a dictator.”
Ojudu said he was not shocked when Saraki visited Babangida after the
invasion and blockade of the National Assembly by the operatives of the
DSS, adding that his reading of the situation was that the President of
the Senate went to brief Babangida on the development.
He wrote: “When a couple of days ago Senator Bukola Saraki visited
the gap tooted General in Minna, I interpreted it as going to ask: ‘Oga I
hope I am doing well?'”
The presidential aide further listed the invasion of the houses of
some judges by the DSS in the middle of the night, the freezing of the
accounts of the Akwa Ibom and Benue States Governments by the EFCC and
the invasion of the National Assembly and Benue State House of Assembly
by the DSS and police as activities carried out with the knowledge of
Saraki.
He wrote: “From the shenanigans at the Benue House of Assembly, to
the siege on National Assembly, the attack on judges home in the night,
the so called barricade of the Senate President’s house, the laughable
kidnap of Boy Dino and ‘his eleven hours on a tree’, the freezing of
Benue and Akwa Ibom accounts all are scripted, produced and acted by
Oloye (Saraki) Productions.”
Ojudu added: “Soon they may come up with a bullet riddled vehicle and
claim that the Executive Producer has survived an assassination
attempt. After all some of the Offa sharp shooters are still at large.
“May God save us from these power mongers.”
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