Senator Misau carpets Buhari’s aide for linking Saraki with EFCC, warns presidency

Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau, has
stated that the Presidency should be ashamed that it is pushing the
conspiracy script that top officials of the nation's security
apparatus are working for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Reacting to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
statement that debunked the allegations credited to the Senior Special
Assistant to the President (Political Affairs), Babafemi Ojudu, that
the EFCC was working in tandem with Saraki, Misau said that both the
All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole and Ojudu,
were spinning the same conspiracy theory to hide the lack of
coordination and discipline amongst the security agencies.

"The EFCC's statement confirms our immediate reaction that both Ojudu
and Oshiomhole have been reading from the same conspiracy script.

"Nigerians find it unthinkable that Magu, that the Senate refused to
confirm — whose EFCC has also prosecuted Saraki for over 3 years at
the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) would now turn around and start
working for this same Saraki. How is this possible?

"These people think that they can just wake up, think up conspiracy
theories and try to sell it to Nigerians, but the public is smarter
and more discerning than their shallow fictitious narratives", the
Senator stated.

Misau also stated that the APC and Ojudu should be ashamed of
indicting the Presidency in such an explicit fashion.

"In any case, shouldn't they be ashamed to even claim that the entire
internal security institutions in the country are working for someone
else other than the person that appointed them?

"Additionally, at what point did they decipher this? Was it before the
siege on the National Assembly or after?

"What this goes to show is that in their desperate bid to blame
someone else for their crime and incompetence, these people no longer
have a sense of shame," the Senator said.

Misau further amplified the call for an independent judicial panel of
inquiry into the National Assembly siege, stating that any other
investigation would be seen as biased and flawed in the eyes of
Nigerians and the international community.

"In this regard, we hereby reiterate the call for independent judicial
panel of inquiry into the invasion. Any other such investigation into
the matter would constitute another attempt by these same people to
present a biased perspective to the assault on our nation's democracy
and its highest lawmaking body," he added.