The
Senator representing Kwara South Senatorial District in the National Assembly,
Rafiu Ibrahim, has said a team of senior legal experts will handle the
allegation of complicity in the Offa robbery saga levelled against the
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, by the police.
The
police have insisted that Saraki is needed to make certain clarifications on
the statement of the suspects arrested in connection with the robbery despite
the legal advice from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, which absolved the Senate President of any complicity in
the act.
But
Ibrahim, who is among the 14 senators, who defected from the All Progressives
Congress on Tuesday, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that
Saraki’s lawyers, who are mainly Senior Advocates of Nigeria, were already
brainstorming on the case.
The
Senator’s clarification appears to be an indication that the Senate President
may not honour the police invitation and would rather ask his lawyers to handle
the matter.
His
declaration came on the heels of the insistence of the Force PRO, Moshood
Jimoh, that Saraki still had a case to answer notwithstanding the fact that a
team of investigators grilled the Senate President last week in his office.
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