The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has condemned calls for the resignation of Senate President, Bukola Saraki.<\/p>\n
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In a statement\u00a0 on Sunday, Frank condemned the Tribunal for issuing a warrant of arrest on the Senate President, saying that those calling on Saraki to resign were \u201cignorant and myopic.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said those who purportedly gave Saraki such an ultimatum to vacate his office on the basis of the allegations, which he noted are yet to be proven, are suffering from \u201cacute kwashiorkor in terms of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Northern Ethnic Nationalities Unity Congress (NENUC), had on Saturday, September 19, 2015 given Senator Saraki a three-day ultimatum to resign his office or face mass protests from the members of the group and other Nigerian youth organisations.<\/p>\n
Frank stated that the organisation is not known to law and the people of the region it claims to represent, adding that the supposed convener, Bako Benjamin, remained a shadowy figure who was apparently paid to take a shot at a great man.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cAt best, NENUC is an impostor organisation hurriedly packaged to do a dirty job the behest of Saraki\u2019s traducers, with the sole aim of assailing his towering image.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere were they when Saraki was governor? Where were they when he was chairman of the Nigeria Governor\u2019s Forum (NGF)? Where were they when he blew the whistle on the fuel subsidy scam in the 7th Senate? Where were they when he contested and was elected Senate President?<\/p>\n
\u201cLet failed politicians not seek to make political capital from this set up against Saraki called asset declaration trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir claim to have mobilised Nigerians to protest, should Saraki not heed their call to resign in three days, shows their level of desperation to deliver on the smear contract they have been awarded.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir ignorance of the law, that a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, is also most profound.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the judiciary no longer the last hope of the people? Saraki had faulted the charges against him as being politically motivated. He had also gone to the Federal High Court to seek redress.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut those who are eager to get him out will do everything to stop the wheel of justice in this case, hence the warrant of arrest issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal and the spurious calls for his resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called Nigerians to disregard all calls for the Senate President to resign before the cases against him are determined by the courts as anything to the contrary would be a grave injustice on the person of Saraki and also a rape on our democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have threatened to protest which I doubt because it is diversionary, but should they attempt it, they will meet Nigerians on the streets who will match them word for word and action for action,\u201d he declared.
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