Saraki asks court to restrain AGF, IG, others from ‘unlawfully’ removing him

The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to among others, control the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Department of State Services (DSS) from supporting any push to sack Senate President Bukola Saraki through means other than that accommodated under Section 50(2)(c ) of the Constitution.

The ask for from part of the reliefs in a suit documented on Monday by Senators Rafiu Adebayo (PDP, Kwara South) and Isa Misau (PDP, Bauchi Central) through a group of legal counselors, including previous Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Kanu Agabi (SAN) and Mahmud Magaji (SAN).

The offended parties expressed that, passing by late events and articulations by a few pioneers of a group of All Progressives Congress (APC), from which they had absconded, they were persuaded of plots to constrain Saraki off the Senate President's seat by implies other than that gave in Section 50(2)(c ) of the Constitution.

Segment 50(2) gives: "The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives will abandon his office… . (c) on the off chance that he is expelled from office by a determination of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, by and large, by the votes of at the very least 66% greater part of the individuals from that House."

Recorded as litigants in the suit may be: The Senate, the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawal (Senate Leader), Senator Bala Ibn Nallah (Deputy Senate Leader), Senator Emma Buacha (Deputy Minority Leader), Clerk of the Senate, Deputy Clerk of the Senate, Attorney General of the Federation, Inspector General of Police and Department of State Services (DSS).

Misau expressed, in a supporting sworn statement, that there was proof of danger of established rupture which require the court to intercede by controlling the litigants from falling back on illegal intends to actualise their claimed risk and plot to unseat the Senate President following his surrender to the PDP.

The offended parties are asking the court for, among others, a request controlling the ninth, tenth and eleventh respondents, either independent from anyone else, operators, hirelings, privies by at all name supposed from authorizing any demonstration of the first, third to eighth litigants implying to have expelled the second litigant from office without such act being in consistence with the arrangements of Sections 50(2) of the Constitution of the Fedora! Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as revised).

* An affirmation that the President of the Senate can't be said to have cleared his office by goodness of Section 50(2)(c) of the Constitution when he has not been expelled from office by the votes of at least two-third greater part of the individuals from the Senate.

No date has been set for the becoming aware of the suit.