Senators hold emergency meeting over Saraki/Code of Conduct palaver, vow to deal with cabal

About 50 Senators cutting across different political parties in
the senate, convened an emergency meeting in Abuja
yesterday September 19th where they discussed the Code of
Conduct Tribunal's invitation to Senate President Bukola
Saraki over his alleged false declaration of assets.
Daily Trust reports that the senators at the meeting
exonerated President Buhari of being behind the current
crisis facing the senate President but accused "a cabal"
within the presidency who they say is instigating the
government institutions against Senate President Saraki.
Rising from the meeting which lasted for about 4 hours with
some senators joining the meeting via telephone, the
convener of the meeting, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah said they
had unanimously resolved to support the anti-corruption war
of President Buhari and also to deal decisively with the cabal
“We have resolved to use all available powers under the
constitution to ensure that no cabal exists and run the
government on behalf of Buhari and we have also resolved to
deal decisively with the cabal,” he said.
Also another senator who spoke on the condition of
anonymity after the meeting said
"Our colleagues were angry at the beginning of the meeting
because they were initially suspecting that the President has
hand in the trial of Saraki. But after heated debate, they
understood that Buhari was not responsible for it. One of our
colleagues present at the meeting suggested that the Senate
should reconvene on Monday [tomorrow] in order to address
the challenge. His suggestion, however, did not see the light
of day as we resolved to use other channels to address the
challenge.”.

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