Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA)
has urged Nigerians to be vigilant of alleged
plan by All Progressives Congress (APC)
leadership to blackmail the Senate President,
Bukola Saraki, and the Deputy Senate
President, Senator Ekweremadu, to submission.
The National Coordinator of HURIWA,
Emmanuel Onwubiko, made the call yesterday
at the press conference in Abuja.
The coordinator of the pro-democracy and
political rights activists group said the group
had uncovered a plan by APC leadership to
blackmail the Senate president and his deputy.
Onwubiko said: “We have it on good authority
that finishing touches were being put on the
plan at the Abuja home of a leader of the party
where two senators from Yobe and Jigawa
states were allegedly present.
“Seeing that there is no legal means to kick out
the senate leadership, the plan now includes
forgery of all manners of documents,
manipulated audio and audio-visual materials,
and the importation of a professional female
blackmailer from the United States of America,
other European countries and even South
Africa, to coerce the Senate helmsmen into
submission.
“HURIWA denounces in strong terms the
emerging erosion of the independence of the
National Assembly, and worst of all, the resort
to cheap blackmail.”
Onwubiko said the plots by a splinter of APC
leadership were to destabilise the nation and
undermine the recently democratically elected
Senate president and his deputy, even when
President Muhammadu Buhari accepted the
result.
He said APC leadership should be reminded
that it rode to power on the wings of free
democratic environment and the sanctity of the
ballot box, saying the emerging scenario was
disappointing, unhealthy for democracy, and a
betrayal of the mandate for change handed to
APC at the 2015 general elections.
He, therefore, called on the president to
immediately restore sanity to the National
Assembly by calling his party men and women
to order, and protect the independence and
stability of the legislature.
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