IGP, Idris and Senate President, Sarakai. |
Senate
President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by
the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation
is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose.
Saraki
in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu,
stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on
the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on
the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that
the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political
points.
"I
have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a
ploy to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives
members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was also
said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the
so-called defection plan.
"While
I continue to maintain that the issue of my position on the 2019 elections is
not a personal decision for me alone to make, it should be noted that all these
concoctions and evil plot cannot deter me. Those behind this fresh assault will
fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter
for that matter.
"I
am aware that following a request made by the Police on June 13, 2018 to the
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation had written a legal
advice dated June 22, 2018, in which he stated on page 5, paragraph (f)
that "For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor, this office
is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between
the alleged office and the suspects".
"The
Police have obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the
Offa robbery incident. They have turned it into an instrument for the party in
power to suppress perceived opponents, witchunt issue for blackmailing people
from freely choosing which platform on which they want to pursue their ambition
and a matter for harassing the people whose exit from APC would harm the
chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.
"I
want to make it apparent that I have no hand in either the robbery incident or
any criminal activity. The Police in their haste to embarrass me sent the
invitation to me at 8pm and requested that I report to the station by 8am
tomorrow morning. This obviously demonstrated their desperation as I do not see
why they are now in a hurry.
"They
also stated in today's letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018 to
their own letter written on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding simply
to the contents of the letter and that the full text of the statement made by
the arrested suspects which they claimed indicted me was not made available to
me, they were now including the suspects statements in the current letter. Yet,
instead of including the suspects' statements, they only attached two copies of
my own letter to the invitation. No suspect’s statement was made available.
"This
plot aimed at compelling me and my associates to stay in a party where members
are criminalised without just cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the
highest level and where there is no respect for constitutionalism is an
exercise in futility and it will fail.
"Once
again, my confidence in God and our judicial system remains intact and
unshaken. The truth shall also prevail in this case", he stated.
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