Security agents around the Abuja home of Bukola Saraki on Tuesday.
Punch Metro reports that Jimoh Moshood, the Police spokesman, has
said that the blockade of the Abuja home of Senate President Bukola
Saraki must have been by his own security aides, rather than by the
Police, as widely reported.
Moshood, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon, said that
the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has consequently ordered
a probe into the incidence.
The media had reported earlier on Tuesday that operatives of the
Department of State Services and policemen laid siege to Saraki’s home
in Abuja.
Saraki had also alleged that the siege was an attempt to stop some members of the Senate from defecting from the ruling party.
However, Moshood denied that the Police blocked Saraki from leaving
his residence in the morning, noting that the “unathorised blockade”
must have been carried out by his (Saraki’s) security aides.
He added that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered an investigation into the incident.