PDP Uncovers Fresh Plots to Arrest Saraki, Ekweremadu..

Reveals INEC Submitted Election Budget to Presidency Since February

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again uncovered a plot by the All 
Progressives Congress (APC) and the cabal in the Buhari Presidency to 
use compromised security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes 
Commission (EFCC) to invite, arrest and detain Senate President Bukola 
Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.

This is just as the PDP has unraveled fresh facts confirming that the 
pressure by the Presidency for the reconvening of the Senate is out of a 
sinister motive and not for any emergency in the approval of the budget 
of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 
election.

The fresh plot to detain the two presiding officers is part of renewed 
design to keep them out of circulation, ahead of Senate resumption, so 
as to enable the heavily induced APC senators, who are now in the 
minority, to throw up two of their members as Senate President and 
Deputy Senate President respectively on the excuse that Saraki and 
Ekweremadu failed to show up for proceedings in the Senate.

The PDP notes that the new plot to cage Saraki and Ekweremadu, in 
devilish rehash of the Tuesday July 24, 2018 hostage-taking and invasion 
of their official residences by security agencies is coming after the 
August 7, 2018 failed attempt to use security forces to take control of 
the leadership of the Senate.

Apart from plots to arrest and detain Saraki and Ekweremadu, the PDP has 
also been made aware of plans to use the EFCC and security forces to 
clamp down on their family members, including their wives and siblings 
as well as close associate, all in the effort to weaken their resolve.

Moreover, investigations by the PDP further confirm that the insistence 
of the APC-led Federal Government on the emergency reconvening of the 
National Assembly, ostensibly to consider INEC’s budget for the 2019 
election, is part of APC’s thicker plot to execute their premeditated 
‘coup’ on the leadership of the Senate.

PDP was further informed that contrary to claims by the APC and the 
Presidency, INEC actually submitted the budget to the presidency since 
February 2018, only for the Presidency to submit it to the National 
Assembly in July when the legislature was already going on recess; with 
a view to enmesh it in a needless controversy.

Furthermore, the PDP counsels Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to stop 
acting saint, as Nigerians are aware that he is part and parcel of the 
actors behind the sordid developments playing out in the National 
Assembly.

The PDP invites Nigerians and the international community to note the 
activities of the APC and the Buhari Presidency, which have continued to 
put the unity and stability of our nation as well as our hard-earned 
democracy under serious stress.

In all, the PDP cautions the APC and power mongers at the Presidency to 
know that Nigerians have seen through their evil intentions and will 
continue to firmly resist them by standing for democracy and the unity 
of our nation at all times.