A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed an ex-parte motion for a court injunction preventing the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation from going ahead with the prosecution of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and three other individuals who allegedly have forgery charges hanging aound their neck due to their tampering with the Senate Standing Orders 2011.
Gilbert Nnaji, a serving Senator and an applicant for the injunction prayed the court to stop Saraki and others from acting on the police report issued with respect to their forgery trial.
However, it was gathered late on Saturday, July 2, that Justice Gabriel Kolawole rejected the motion filed on Monday, June 27.
Justice Kolawole ruled: “In terms of the restraining orders, which the plaintiff seeks in the prayer one of his motion ex-parte, I am unable to grant the prayers because the plaintiff has not been able to overcome the issue of his locus standing, which I had raised at the proceedings of July 27, 2015.
“It is not sufficient, when the Supreme Court’s decision in Senator Abraham Adesanya v. President of Nigeria & another (1981) 5 SC 112 is applied, for the plaintiff, who has not shown that he is one of the defendants listed in the criminal charge attached as Exhibit B to this motion ex-parte, to be conferred, in the context of the provision of Section 6(6)(b) of the Constitution 999 (as amended) with the cloak of an ‘aggrieved’ person who ought to be granted access to ventilate his grievance and to seek the interim orders in his motion ex-parte.”
Senate majority leader, Ali Ndume (L) and Senate president, Bukola Saraki (R)
The reason for this is because of a perceived secret battle which has commenced between Saraki and his deputy on one hand, and the Leader of the Senate, Ali Ndume, on the other hand.
SaharaReporters learnt that in the last one week, trouble between Saraki’s and Ndume’s camps began when the Senate president allegedly found out that the Senate majority leader was not on his side based on the brewing crisis between him, Saraki and the Presidency.
An unnamed top ranking Senator, stated that due to the critical nature of the issue, during the week that Saraki suddenly discovered that Ndume, who was allegedly close to the Presidency, was no longer appealing on his behalf whenever he visited Aso Rock Villa.
The senator revealed that since Ndume became Senate majority leader, Ndume had allegedly warned Saraki to be cautious of Ekweremadu and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Senate as they could make him have a friction with the presidency.
According to the unnamed Senator, Ndume emphatically told the Senate president to avoid any form of power tussle with President Muhammadu Buhari, but should however do everything within his power to support Buhari’s administration, so that the presidency would extend a hand of fellowship to him.
The Senator stated: “The trouble between Saraki and Ndume started when some of Saraki’s ‘men’ in the Villa started feeding the Senate President with reports of how Ndume had allegedly joined members of the Senate Unity Forum to work against him and Ekweremadu.
“Don’t forget; Ndume contested for deputy senate president against Ekweremadu in this Eighth Senate. His initial intention was to be Senate president before realignment between him and Saraki made him to settle for deputy senate president.
“It was when Saraki discovered that all attempts by him to see President Buhari did not succeed despite Ndume’s assurances that he started listening to other close colleagues, who advised him to adopt a confrontational strategy against the Presidency.”
It seems Saraki is having more oppositions than supporters, because on Wednesday, June 29, the SGF, David Lawal explained that Saraki’s forgery was case like the certificate forgery, which led to the resignation of a Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari.
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