Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has all but confirmed Senator Bukola Saraki’s exit from the ruling APC to the main opposition party, PDP.
Atiku while reacting to police barricading Saraki’s home hinted that he has the right to dump APC just as he joined the party in 2013.
“The news of the siege on the residences of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, is “both troubling and unsettling,” he said in a statement by his media office.
“No democratic nation ought to treat the leadership of its parliament like common criminals in the course of a political disagreement.
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“I remind the powers that be that on August 31, 2013, when Sen. Bukola Saraki walked out of the PDP and began the process of joining the All Progressives Congress, there was celebration in their camps.
“I also remind them that their electoral victory, which they have so badly mismanaged today, would not have been possible without the Senate President.
“Power is transient and is also a trust that should only be used for the good and advancement of the people one leads and not for the persecution of real and imagined political opponents.
“I therefore call for the lifting of the sieges on the persons and homes of Saraki and his deputy, Ekweremadu, by security forces.”
Abubakar urged President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his words after Saraki’s ordeal which was brought to a halt by the Supreme Court.
