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Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, said the suspension placed by the Legislature on confirmation of appointments made by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, still stands, Post-Nigeria reports.

Saraki pointed out that the confirmation of Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, at the plenary on Thursday, did not mean that the Lawmakers had backed down on their action against the Presidency.

This clarification came as Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, had raised a point of order, shortly before the Senate confirmed the REC appointments, to ask if the Senators had made a U-Turn on the matter, as reported in the media.

Abaribe said: “This morning, because of the reports in the newspapers, that the Senate has soft-pedaled on the resolution by the Senate with regard to confirmation (of appointments) coming from the Executive, I got a lot of phone calls from my Constituency.

“As you know, my Constituency – Abia-South – is represented in the Niger Delta Development Commission. When they saw the newspapers today, they called to find out whether this Senate has changed its stand on the confirmation of the NDDC representatives.

“Mr. President, I do not know and I want an explanation, if it is true.”

Saraki responded that the Senate usually respects its resolutions, affirming: “and we will never go against the resolutions of the body.”

He said: “If you can recollect, what we said was that anybody (appointment) that is explicitly stated in the Constitution – if you go to Section 153 or 171 – referenced to Ministerial and Ambassadorial appointments, are the only ones that we would continue to consider.

“These are Ambassadors, Ministers, or bodies explicitly stated in the Constitution.

“All bodies that are by the law of the National Assembly (Acts of Parliament), are still affected by the resolution. The Independent National Electoral Commission, is under Section 153 (f).

“I want to reassure you that we have not moved away from this resolution. We don’t have the powers – just as Presiding Officers – to move away from it; we must come back to you (Legislators).

“Please, disregard what you have seen in the newspapers, and be guided that we Presiding Officers respect the law and respect our colleagues.”

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A cross section of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, faithfuls, have set August 1, as the date for the immediate recall of Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

The statement signed by a cross section of APC Chieftains as obtained by Sahara Reporters reads:

“The Kwara State Publicity Secretary of All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Sulyman Buhari, issued an empty statement on 14th July, 2017, where he was beating his none existing chest, over our call for the recall of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

“The inconsequential APC Spokesman in Kwara State, who is not even known in his own ward in Ilorin, nor has the capacity to influence anyone, boast that “Kwara Must Change” can never secure the required signatures against the Senate President, adding that, he would resign his position if such happen, but we do not consider such an irrelevant person as worthy of our attention.

“We would like to state that, the good people of Ilorin that are ready for the recall exercise, have no business with an inconsequential Publicity Secretary. All the people are demanding for is adequate representation, which the Senate President has failed to offer, hence the decision to activate the constitutional process of recall.

“While the APC Publicity Secretary is busy making empty boast on media, some of the Legislative Aides of the Senate President, have dolled huge sum of money to launch campaign of calumny against the leadership of our group, to discredit our personalities, but unknown to them, what they are doing is not only making the recall process more widely known and accepted by the people, it has also allowed more supporters and well wishers, even among their own followers have access to us, to pledge their support to the recall process. We have to thank them for
helping us and the people, as we consider their campaign of calumny, an unintended blessing in disguise.

“Most importantly, we must warn one particular Legislative Aide of the Senate President, Mr. Olaitan Obalowu, who called to threaten violence over the recall of Senator Bukola Saraki. Olaitan is a Legislative Aide to Dr. Saraki, and a former Coordinator of Muhammed Dele Belgore Solidarity Group.

“We wonder what they are scared of, when they have described the recall as an exercise in futility.

“Let it be clear that the process of recall has been initiated. It is a constitutional process that can not be stopped by any threat. It will take place as announced and shall succeed insha Allah.

“If the Senate President is as popular as he thinks, there is nothing to worry about, because we cannot recall the Senate President without the people. This is simply a test of popularity.

“We maintain that nobody can threaten us, because we are determined to carry on with this process and get it to a logical conclusion. As law abiding citizens of Nigeria and employer of the Senate President, the
people reserve the right to hire and fire him at any time we consider his services no longer useful. This is the power we intend to exercise without fear or favor.

“We therefore, call on the Senate President, to caution his overzealous Aides, and warn them to desist from unwarranted threat, because should anything happen to any of our members; we would hold him directly responsible.

“Finally, we reiterate that the signing of the recall register shall hold as announced on August 1, 2017, and we urge all electorates in Kwara Central, to troop out en-mass to sign the register, so as to effect the recall.”

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