Bukola Saraki reacts to his invitation by Police IG over the Offa Robbery, hints at dumping APC over witch hunt!

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to appear at the office of intelligence response team (IRT) office in Abuja today Tuesday July 24th, over the robbery incident that took place in Offa, Kwara state, on April 5th. The attack claimed the lives of over 20 persons.

Reacting to the latest development, the Senate President Bukola Saraki said,

‘I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by the 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). 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’.

He also hinted at dumping the APC for PDP saying, ‘

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’.

I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by the 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).

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by the 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).

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

Those behind this fresh assault will fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter for that matter.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

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 plots cannot deter me.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

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.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

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… pic.twitter.com/3FyV7fPBYx

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

Yet, instead of including the suspects' statements, they only attached two copies of my own letter to the invitation. No suspects statement was made available.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018

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.

— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 23, 2018