[News] Leave Buhari Alone, Lawmakers Warn Bukola Saraki And Dino Melaye

A group of lawmakers called the parliamentary support group has urged their colleagues who have issues with the police to sort them out without involving the National Assembly.

The lawmakers said this on Tuesday in reaction to a threat by the Assembly to invoke its constitutional powers against President Muhammadu Buhari following alleged persecution of its principal officers by the police.

Two lawmakers who currently have cases with the police are Senate President Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye.

A joint executive session of both chambers had passed a 12-point condition for the president to address urgently or face the invocation of the powers of the legislature.

Reacting in a statement, the spokesperson of the group, Abdulmumin Jibrin, said the views expressed at the end of the session were not endorsed by all the lawmakers.

He said: “Almost all the members and senators that spoke at the executive session are of the PDP while members of the APC declined joining the discussion to avoid a rowdy confrontation as the entire session could easily pass for a PDP executive session.”