Those calling for Saraki’s resignation ignorant, impostors, says APC

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, on
Sunday, described those calling on the Senate President,
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to resign as ignorant and
myopic.
Frank spoke on the heels of a call for resignation by a
body known as “Northern Ethnic Nationalities Unity
Congress (NENUC)”, led by one Bako Benjamin
In a statement in Abuja, Frank said that the purported
resignation threat on the account of unproven allegations,
does not hold water, saying that the masterminds were
suffering from acute kwashiorkor in terms of knowledge.
He stated that the body does not exist and “therefore
cannot purportedly speak on behalf of northern youths as
“you cannot put something on nothing”, even as he
called the convener a shadowy figure.
He said: “At best, NENUC is an impostor organisation
hurriedly packaged to do a dirty job the behest of
Saraki’s traducers, with the sole aim of assailing his
towering image.
“Where were they when Saraki was governor? Where were
they when he was chairman of the Nigeria Gogernor’s
Forum (NGF)? Where were they when he blew the whistle
on the fuel subsidy scam in the 7th Senate? Where were
they when he contested and was elected Senate
President?
“Let failed politicians not seek to make political capital
from this set up against Saraki called asset declaration
trial.”
“Their claim to have mobilized Nigerians to protest,
should Saraki not heed their call to resign in three days,
shows their level of desperation to deliver on the smear
contract they have been awarded.
“Their ignorance of the law, that a man is presumed
innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent
jurisdiction, is also most profound.
“Is the judiciary no longer the last hope of the people?
Saraki had faulted the charges against him as being
politically motivated. He had also gone to the Federal
High Court to seek redress.
“But those who are eager to get him out will do
everything to stop the wheel of justice in this case, hence
the warrant of arrest issued by the Code of Conduct
Tribunal and the spurious calls for his resignation.
“Why the hurry to try Saraki, when it is apparent that the
Chairman of CCT, Danlandi Umar, himself swimming in a
pool of corruption allegations, would rather disobey the
orders of a superior court of record that ordered that all
parties to the case should appear before it,” he stated.
The Deputy Publicity Secretary further accused the group
of attempting to trample on the rights of the senate
president, calling Nigerians o disregard the body.
“The position of NENUC, even though does not represent
the views of the people of North, are reminiscent of our
dark past for which we pray never to return or experience
in the annals of this country.
“Let this amorphous association and its backers know
that we are in a democracy and not under a dictatorship
as they would have wished.
“They have threatened to protest which I doubt because
it is diversionary, but should they attempt it, they will
meet Nigerians on the streets who will match them words
for words and action for action,” he said.