Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos
State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe
Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos
State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe
The All Progressives Congress has said the investigation of
the leadership of the Senate was not a witch hunt. The ruling party asked the
Police to prosecute senators found to be culpable in the forgery of Standing
Rules of the Upper House.
The Publicity Secretary, APC, Lagos State chapter, Mr. Joe
Igbokwe, in an email to SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday night, said there were more
questions the principal officers and officials of the National Assembly needed
to be asked.
He said, “What happened on June 9, 2015, was an illegality
that is not known in law. Out of 108 senators, only (the Senate President)
Bukola Saraki and (his deputy) Ike Ekweremadu, the clerk and one or two others
knew how they changed the 2011 Senate Rule to make it possible for 57 senators
to go into the purported election without 51 members.
“Again, it is the clerk of the Senate that will tell the
world why he had to read the proclamation letter from the President (Muhammadu
Buhari) when 51 senators were absent. Was there a role call to make sure that
everybody was present before taking the crucial decision? Nobody is trying to
witch hunt anybody.”
Igbokwe described the election that produced Saraki and
Ekweremadu as leaders of the Senate as “an illegality, open robbery and a
nullity.” He said, “The truth is that the so-called election never took place.
Nothing happened.”
He warned that any “real” APC member who took part in the
fraud of the June 9, 2015, should know that he had betrayed the struggle for
change in Nigeria, which, according to him, led to the death of many Nigerians
and loss of material resources since 1999.
“They have joined the enemies of change to render nugatory
all our efforts to build a new Nigeria. They are Quislings,” he stated.
Igbokwe added, “I want the Police to do a thorough
investigations and get all those who forged the so-called 2015 Senate Rule to
steal the Senate leadership on June 9, 2015. What happened in the Senate is not
only strange but an aberration and the law must be allowed to its full course.
This is our irreducible minimum demand.”
Copyright PUNCH.
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