Senate President, Bukola Saraki is expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari to inform him about an alleged plot by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to implicate him.

Saraki will lead the leadership of the upper legislative chamber to meet with Buhari over the alleged plot.

Members of the delegation are the Leader of the Senate Ahmed Lawan, the Chief Whip Olusola Adeyeye, Minority Whip Godswill Akpabio, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu (APC-Lagos) and Sen. Raji Rasaki (APC-Ekiti).

Others are Sen. Aliyu Wammakko (APC-Sokoto), Sen. Sam Egwu (PDP-Ebonyi), Sen. Danjuma Goje (APC-Gombe) and Sen. Abdullahi Adamu (APC-Nasarawa).

While addressing his colleagues, Saraki said the Kwara State Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed brought his attention to an alleged plan by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to force some suspects to implicate him in a criminal matter.

He said the Governor informed him that the suspects who were arrested in Kwara for cultism were allegedly ordered by Idris to Abuja to force them into altering their statements.

“According to information available to the Governor, the Inspector General of Police directed the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State to immediately transfer the men to the Force Headquarters

” The plan as the Governor was made to understand is that under duress, the suspects would be made to alter the statements already made in Ilorin.

“They will be made to implicate the Kwara State Government and myself in particular in their new statement.

” This plot is part of the strategy by the IGP to settle scores over the declaration by this honourable Chamber that he is not qualified and competent to hold any public office.

“In my view, this plot is an act of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State.

“The tactics is aimed at turning the country into a state where top officials cannot be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities.

“I want to bring this dangerous development to the attention of all of you, the entire country and the international community so that you can be aware of the level of impunity in our country and the danger it constitutes to our democracy,” he said.

Contributing, the Deputy Leader of the Senate, Bala Na’ Allah said the matter should be treated with the seriousness it deserved.

He said for the matter to come from the Chief Security Officer of Kwara State, it should be taken seriously.

He called for the setting up of a committee to investigate the matter, adding that, “in view of the fact that Saraki is involved he should step down for Ekweremadu to preside on setting up of the committee.”

Sen. Gbenga Ashafa-(APC-Lagos) said the committee should comprise of members of the Senate and the House of Representatives in view of the fact that Saraki is the Chairman of the National Assembly.

Chief Whip, Olusola Adeyeye, said the committee should comprise of seven lawmakers from each of the six geopolitical zones.

He said the House of Representatives should be intimated on the development and advised to do same if they so wished.

Sen. Sam Anyanwu(PDP-Imo) lamented the fact that lawmakers were being intimidated from carrying out their responsibilities.

Sen.Emmanuel Bwacha(PDP-Taraba) decried increased spate of intimidation of lawmakers.
He also suggested that the matter should be taken to the president, stressing that,” he ought to know that our democracy is collapsing. “
He further narrated his ordeal when he applied for security backup on his way to a volatile part of his state.

Sen.Isah Misau(APC-Bauchi) said he brought the recent hounding of lawmakers to their attention when he noticed the turn of events but was not taken seriously.

In his remark, the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu said “we all know that the Parliament is the temple of democracy.

“We have the responsibility to our people not only to preserve our democracy but to also ensure that it is purified.

” What the Senate President has raised today is an exposure of some of the things that are wrong with our democracy which we need to halt.

“So we need to ensure there is rule of laws and we need to ensure that we respect our various rights.
“We are a country that is bound by conventions, laws, culture and tradition.

“So it is our responsibility as a Parliament to ensure that we protect the rights of our citizens, to ensure that we make progress as a nation especially on the issues of human rights and democracy,” he said.