According to The Nation, The Salvage Group, a group of professionals in the All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to toe the line of morality and decency, by stepping down, to enable him face his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Peter Ajayi, and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Bola Olanrewaju, stated that it is disgraceful that while Buhari’s administration is working hard to give Nigeria a new direction, the Senate President is undermining its efforts by colluding with those that ruined the economy in the last 16 years.
The group said this not the first time a Senate President would be compelled to step down in the current political dispensation because he has lost the moral high-ground demanded to occupy such an exalted office. It cited the cases of Senator Chuba Okadigbo, Senator Adolphus Wabara and Senator Evan Enwerem, who were removed from office under similar circumstances. “These men were members of the governing party and they quietly left office at the time, but the nation moved on,” the statement noted.
Furthermore, they stated: “We like to say clearly here that some of his colleagues that purportedly passed a vote of confidence on him do not truly represent the feelings of their constituents, and so cannot be speaking for the 170 million Nigerians. The senators cannot claim to know Saraki better than the millions of his Ilorin kinsmen who, on Sallah day, stoned him like the devil which they think he replicates. Saraki’s vote of confidence is mute because under the presidential system, unlike the Westminster parliamentary system, votes of confidence are inappropriate. When the process commences, his colleagues will surely abandon him, as two of them have already done.”