Court can’t save Saraki - Oshiomhole

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole said Senate President Bukola Saraki can’t be saved by courts.

Oshiomhole said this yesterday in Abuja when the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) met with its caucus in the National Assembly.

The meeting was convened on a day National Assembly was expected to reconvene to consider the budget for 2019 election submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara in a statement by their media aides, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Turaki Hassan, yesterday said the National Assembly cannot reconvene until the committees set up to consider the election budget conclude its report.

Dogara was absent at the meeting of the APC attended by his deputy, Yussuff Lasun.

Oshiomhole said Saraki would be removed legally, saying he could not continue to lead when APC has 56 senators as against PDP’s 49 senators.

He said Saraki could only avoid impeachment if he toed the path of honour by stepping down so that the APC could take over the leadership of the senate.

The APC national chairman promised to reward the lawmakers, urging them to dismiss insinuation that they would be denied their tickets.

“I want to reassure you that we value you; all the stories about people being denied or that you would be frustrated out, I want to assure you that our party values experience; our party values knowledge; our party values loyalty and our party will do everything possible to reward loyalty and demonstrate that loyalty pays and we will not be ashamed to do so. We are already doing so many things on our part but like they say, the taste of the pudding is in the eating. With time, all these shall come to pass and we would have kept our word as you have kept yours,” he said.