A grand plot
to remove the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, is in the works and
is being allegedly championed by a former governor and a serving
senator, Vanguard exclusively reports.
This is even as meetings are said to have been held to actualise the removal.
The plot was said to have been weaved around the former governor
and other key players, especially on the roles they are expected to
play.
It was gathered that the move may fail as senators already contacted are yet to fully commit to the plot.
A source said the minister, who is believed to be leading the move,
is a former governor of an oil-producing state in the South South.
The source also said a serving governor from North-West and a close
ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, is also believed to be involved in
the plot, even as the source said the governor from the North-West
served as a minister during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure,
specifically between 2003 and 2007.
It would be recalled that Senator Isah Hamman Misau (APC, Bauchi
Central) had at last week’s plenary, disclosed that a minister was
leading a move to impeach Saraki.
A source also disclosed that at the meeting, where the plot was
being carried out, four serving senators from the North who are said to
be against the Presidency of Saraki were in attendance.
One of the senators is a former governor of a state in North Central.
It was also gathered that another senator who attended the meeting
is a senator from Bauchi State, currently in a running battle with his
state governor.
Also at the meeting is a front line rival of Saraki and one of those likely to be appointed as minister.
The fourth senator, who attended the meeting, is one of the longest
serving lawmakers in the National Assembly. He is a principal officer
in the Senate.
According to the source, the four lawmakers, including the minister
from the South-South, a serving governor from the North-West, a top
official in the Presidency named another former who was not at the
meeting, to lead the impeachment move.
Outside Saraki, four other senators are also being allegedly
targeted for ‘character assassination and destruction’ and they are
Senators Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West; Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, APC,
Niger North; Isa Misau APC, Bauchi Central and Shehu Sani, APC,
Kaduna Central.
It was also gathered that senators who did not attend the meeting
when contacted, were said to have advised the former governor of the
need to have a united National Assembly ahead of the 2019 general
elections, rather than come up with a destabilisation plot that will die
on arrival.