Senate President Bukola Saraki has made fresh
moves to plead with President Muhammadu
Buhari and the National Leader of the APC,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, following the Supreme
Court judgment that his trial at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal must continue. In the 13 counts initiated by the Federal
Government, Saraki was said to have made
false asset declaration in his forms at the Code
of Conduct Bureau as a two-term governor of
Kwara State.
And now that the CCT has fixed a date – March
10 – for his trial Saraki is getting more
desperate. It was reliably gathered that since February 5,
Saraki had been making moves to indirectly
reach out and beg Buhari and Tinubu. A top government source, told PUNCH that
Saraki could not reach out directly to Buhari on
the matter as he is very much aware that
President Buhari can never cover a corrupt
person.
The source added that the Senate President
resorted to sending emissaries to Vice-
President Yemi Osinbajo when Buhari was on a
six-day vacation and Osinbajo was the acting
President. The delegation was reportedly led by the
Senate Leader, Ali Ndume. The source said the Vice-President made his
position and that of the President clear to
Saraki’s emissaries.
He said, “Saraki knows the kind of person the
President is and I think he won’t approach him
directly on this matter. But yes, I can tell you
that he is reaching out indirectly. “He sent emissaries to meet with the Vice-
President when the President was on vacation
and the Vice-President was on the chair in
acting capacity. “The emissaries had met with the Vice-
President under the cover of the developments
about the 2016 budget. In the process, they
put the issue of Saraki forward.
“Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, however, made
it equivocally clear to them that the two issues
could not be mixed. He told them that the issue
of the budget was different from the trial of
Saraki.” On the issue of Tinubu, it was gathered that
Saraki had reached out to not less than 10
opinion leaders and clerics to visit the APC
national leader at his home in Bourdillon, Ikoyi,
Lagos.
Saraki and Tinubu fell out in June last year
when he defied the directive of the APC and
became the Senate President under very
controversial circumstances. Saraki further ensured that Tinubu’s preferred
candidates were denied principal offices at the
Senate. The former governor of Lagos State
subsequently broke all communication with
Saraki, describing him in an open letter as an
‘indisciplined and disloyal man who is a
member of the PDP in soul.’
A reliable source said Tinubu is not interested
in Saraki’s latest moves. He said, “Access from Saraki’s camp has been
blocked. Tinubu has been disappointed in
every way. It was the party that picked Ahmed
Lawan. He was not Tinubu’s initial candidate
but he did it all the same. So, he has decided to
(wash his) hands and will not say a word again regarding Saraki. “We have been informed that Saraki is working
with a team of people in Ilorin that will storm
Lagos. Top leaders there including Muslim
clerics are being put together to visit Lagos and
mediate on his behalf but Tinubu is not
interested.”
He added, “There is no deal to be made
anymore. Saraki never conceded anything. He
did not give any of our people any principal
position. He then went ahead to increase the
number of Senate committees by fiat just to
placate those that have been following him to court. “Every concession was denied… Tinubu has
moved on… Saraki should go and get good
lawyers. As you can see, attempts to remove
the CCT chairman did not work. Attempts to
stop the trial at the Supreme Court have also
failed.”
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