Why Senator Abdullahi, Omo-Agege are attacking Saraki —Senator Rafiu Salau

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institution, Senator Rafiu  Ibrahim, said on Friday that two of his colleagues from Nasarawa and Delta states, Abdullahi Adamu and Ovie Omo-Agege, have been attacking Senate President Bukola Saraki because they believed it was a means by which they can escape from the long arm of the law.

Rafiu, in a statement issued in Abuja, said he could see that at every opportunity that Senators Adamu and Omo-Agege have to speak with the press, the Senate President became their subject of attack, adding that the ploy was to ingratiate themselves to their handlers in the Presidency.

He said: “It is a well-known fact that Senator Abdullahi Adamu hurriedly formed the group he now calls Parliamentary Support Group (PSG) when his pending case of corruption as Governor of Nasarawa State being handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was about to be taken to court and everybody knows that the same commission was about to file charges against his son in a different case.

ALSO READ: Osun 2018: Ogunbiyi may emerge as PDP gov candidate

May be the former governor now has a trophy to hold up for his ignoble efforts as the administration, in its usual way, has decided to keep away the file on Adam. I am sure the case against his son is also not getting anywhere again.

“Omo-Agege, the senator from Delta State, knows that in a sane clime, he will not be walking as a free man after the stolen mace incident. The senator who came into the Senate through a court judgement is generally known not to have conducted himself well at all.

Today, he is apologising for some loose talk and tomorrow, he is heading to the court to challenge the decision taken on the issue for which he admitted being wrong and day after, he is in the middle of another mace theft crisis.

“Omo-Agege believes by abusing the leadership of the Senate, he will be guaranteed the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by his handlers in the Presidency. The same way he abuses people in Abuja, he does same thing in his home state and that is why he is the one dividing the party in Delta State. He is definitely a divisive character.

“Ordinarily, I am not somebody who will join in the rabble-rousing game. However, I believe these two senators are behaving as if they have a monopoly of using harsh words against others. They believe they can only earn their relevance and be assured of their re-election by constantly attacking the person and office of the Senate President,” he said.

“While I can understand the exuberance of an Omo-Agege, I am most disappointed in Senator Adamu. We earlier saw him as an elder, one of the people who should be uniting the Senate and trouble-shooting by reconciling and rallying the younger lawmakers behind positive issues. Today, Senator Adamu is the one seeking to destabilize the Senate just to please some people in the executive.

“The earlier these two and their ilk’s retrace their step and concentrate on their duties as lawmakers instead of calling people names and whining like small children, the better. We have ignored them enough. This is a signal that we will tackle them on all points now,” Rafiu stated.