Spokesperson
for the Senate Unity Forum, Senator Kabir Marafa, on Sunday, demanded
the immediate suspension of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, for
allegedly creating controversies around the 2016 budget in order to
blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari.
Marafa,
who is also the Chairman, Senate Committee on National Identity and
National Population, told a group of select journalists in Abuja
that, Saraki and his loyalists in the red chamber, were condemning
the budget to protest his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal.
He
added that the budget controversies in very logical ways, could be
linked to the pending trial of Saraki at the CCT. The senate
president according to him, through the aid of fifth columnists, has
been shouting at different times that the budget was missing,
doctored, or padded, hence can no longer be passed as earlier
planned.
He
said, “Honestly speaking if am to comment on the controversy that
has been trailing the 2016 budget in the Senate, I will say it is all
the work of the fifth columnists there.
“We
woke up one day and the senate president just came and said there is
no budget, that the budget is stolen embarrassing everybody, but the
following day the Speaker said his own was not stolen.
“Next,
they said the budget is doctored, next they said the budget is
padded, next they said there are discrepancies all over the place we
knew how they came into the leadership of the National Assembly or
the Senate.
“Was
it a coincidence that the issue of padding and everything just came
up after the supreme court said go and face your trial ?
“Suddenly
we started hearing that we cannot pass the budget as we promised
because there are discrepancies and so on and so forth.
“In
a nutshell, all the noise about the budget are all about this issue
of corruption trial or CCT trial that is all, no more no less.”
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