While speaking on Tuesday during plenary on the floor of the
senate, the nation’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, narrated his
experience in the hands of security operatives, who laid siege to his
house.
Recall that TORI News had reported earlier today
that security operatives earlier this morning laid siege on the homes
of both the Senate President and the Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu in Abuja.
Speaking on the siege on his home and that of his deputy, Saraki
said the plenary would not have held if not for his preparation.
According to PREMIUM Times, he said: “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.”
Saraki condemned the siege saying it was God that made him escape it. He said; “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.”
The senate president eventually presided over the Senate and
announced the defection of 15 senators away from the APC. Saraki was,
however, not among those that defected.