Senator Babafemi Ojudu is one of the witnesses against Senate president, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu over forgery allegations.
Ojudu who is the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, in a statement issued on Tuesday, June 28, insisted that his role as a witness in the case involving Saraki and others for allegedly forging the Senate Standing Rules, does not have anything to do with his role with the presidency.
The former Ekiti lawmaker also added that his position as a witness is as a member of the Unity Forum, a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nigerian Senate.
Saraki, Ekweremadu and two other key members of the Senate were dragged to court by the Attorney General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami over allegations of forgery and conspiracy and Ojudu happened to be one of those testifying against he Senate president.
“My statement and other witnesses’ statement were taken months before my appointment. As a member of the Unity Forum, I am one of those who worked for Senator Ahmed Lawan as the preferred candidate for the Senate Presidency in the June 9, 2015 election.
“There are three groups of senators, they are: the Unity Forum, Like Minds and the Non-Aligned. The Unity Forum comprises both serving and non-serving senators. I am an active member, being a senator in the 7th Senate from 2011 to 2015,” his statement obtained by The Nation revealed.
While stressing that the rules were never tampered with during his four-year stint with the Nigerian senate, Ojudu lamented that tampering with the rules by the current Senate “was seen as a misnomer by us and that was why we petitioned the police.
“The statement we did to the police on the matter predated my appointment and that of Senator Ita Enang. It will therefore be preposterous for anyone to classify me as representing the Presidency on the matter.”
Meanwhile, Mrs Ezenwude Nwakego was one of those who protested in front of the courthouse during the arraignment of Saraki and others, and she made her grievances known with a Holy Bible.
Nwakego said she was praying for God to intervene in the case of Nigeria and taking a cue from Psalm 109, stated: “Let God judge this Nigeria; there is no food, we are lacking many things, no work for all the graduates.”
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