Saraki/Ekwerenmadu forgery case: Ohanaeze youth threaten showdown with AGF

Ahead of the Monday arraignment of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekwerenmadu by the federal government over Senate Rules forgery case, Ohanaeze youth forum has threatened a showdown with the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami.

Specifically, the youth stated that they would mo­bilize similar groups to scut­tle the arraignment, stress­ing that the prosecution was politically induced.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday and signed by the co-chair­man, Mazi Okemiri Alex, the Youth warned the AGF not to touch the deputy senate president, Ekwer­nmadu who they said was “their son”.

According to the state­ment, the Senate as an in­dependent body had inves­tigated the case in question and found the presiding of­ficers not guilty, demanding that the federal government should allow the national as­sembly to do its job in the spirit and letters of the prin­ciple of separation of pow­ers.

The statement read thus: “The Ohanaeze Ndig­bo Youth Council is alarmed by the sudden resurfacing of the arraignment of the Sen­ate President Bukola Saraki and the Deputy Senate Pres­ident Ike Ekweremadu over the purported forgery of the Senate 8th session rules.

“In as much as we do not condone any act of ille­gality, from any quarters, we make bold to state that the present attempt to arraign Senator Saraki and Ekwer­emadu is ill -motivated and politically induced.

“The issue at stake has been investigated by the Senate and the duo found guiltless in the past. The Senate is the highest law making body in the coun­try and the principle of sep­aration of power confers on them the privilege to inter­nally investigate and even discipline any of their err­ing members.