A group of members of the House of Representatives have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately order the arrest of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Adams Oshiomhole over his alleged attacks on the National Assembly.
The group, known as the Parliamentary Democrats Group (PDG), accused the former Edo State governor of ridiculing Nigeria in the global community by launching relentless attacks against the office of current Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the entire legislative arm of government.
In the statement signed by the group’s spokesperson, Hon. Timothy Golu (Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam, Plateau – PDP), the group said Oshiomhole was destabilizing the National Assembly with his incessant and primitive threats.
“Oshiomhole has refused to sleep because he wants Senator Bukola Saraki removed as duly elected Senate President. He is distracting our nation’s democracy and ridiculing us before the global democratic community. His style is too primitive for democracy.
“Let him come through the door with 2/3 of the senators to legally achieve his selfish objective. What his ignorance would not allow him know is that even some APC senators are not part of the charade. Access to democracy is not brigandage but respect for the rule of law and due process.
“Oshiomhole’s anti-democratic utterances is making us a laughing stock. We advise him not to kill himself on Saraki as there is nothing he can do to subvert the law of democracy just to achieve an anti-democratic goal.
‘We call on President Buhari to immediately call him to order or direct the IGP, Ibrahim Idris to arrest him so that peace can flow. He is destabilizing the National Assembly with threats and the use of security agencies to haunt our leaders,” the statement said.
Ever since Saraki dumped the APC for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in July, Oshiomhole has led the charge for him to be removed as President of the Senate.
The national assembly adjourned legislative sittings till September 25 during plenary on July 24 amid a controversial clampdown by security operatives on Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, in what has been described by the opposition as a witch-hunt orchestrated by the executive.
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