Why APC Can’t Remove Me As Senate President – Saraki

Saraki Insists He Would Finish His Tenure As Senate President

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) can’t remove him as Senate president.

Saraki, while speaking in Minna, the Niger State capital, during a visit to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, said the APC does not have the required number of lawmakers to force him out of office.

“They know that we are in the majority, and whatever they want to do, they know that they don’t have the number,” he said, adding, “One thing is clear, I will not sacrifice the interest of the country for my personal interest, and in the last three years as a Senate president, I have demonstrated that my interest is second to that of national interest, I will not step down from the Senate presidency.”

Naija News recalls Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the APC, has repeatedly asked Saraki to resign as Senate President or risk been removed from office.

Saraki also rejected calls for the National Assembly to reconvene ahead of its planned time, claiming the calls were unnecessary since the lawmakers properly adjourned.

“We did not adjourn the Senate in the dark, there was a procedure, where at the end of the session there was a vote and it was seconded that we should go on annual recess.

“So it wasn’t anything done in the secret, everybody was there. It is not that some few people met somewhere and took the decision.

“Everybody participated and everybody took the decision that we should adjourn for a normal annual recess.

“The date that we agreed to resume is the same date that we resumed last year and the year before, so there is nothing abnormal about the Senate adjournment,” he said.