Agoro tells Saraki to resign

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, should strive and defend himself at the court of law against the criminal charges labeled against him, rather than resorting to “insultive buck passing against President Muhammadu Buhari”, a former presidential candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, has said.

Dr. Agoro, who made the call in a press release made available to journalists in Ibadan, yesterday, said instead of unnecessarily “sitting tight in office, throwing pebbles at the Presidency” Saraki should take the path of honour, resign his position as Senate president, and then face trial squarely to clear his image.

According to him, “it has become highly instructive on the hallowed and honoured principle of what business integrity in governance should be, that the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, resigned from office for the simple reason that the people of the United Kingdom voted against his own held opinion, in a referendum to quit membership of the European Union.

“The offensive buck passing by Saraki on President Buhari’s government on the issue of criminal charges he is facing before law courts should be considered as an attempt to pull the wool on the face of justice.”

Dr Agoro also faulted the decision of the deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, to write a petition to the US congress.

“Asking the international community, who at any rate are known with best practices of the rule of law in sustenance of their democracies to intervene over pending criminal cases in Nigerian courts of competent jurisdiction will not only be an invitation considered self-serving but an exposition of the sordid mentality of those at Nigeria’s corridors of power,” he said.