Forgery Suit: Sen Ita Enang Says Presidency not assembling witnesses against Saraki, Ekweremadu

The presidency on Friday clarified that its officials were not listed as witnesses to deliberately testify against the senate presiding officers and the two top National Assembly management officials currently facing prosecution over the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Rules 2011.


The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters, (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, who made the clarification at a news conference in Abuja, said top presidency officials, including himself, listed as prosecution witnesses, were going to court as members of the seventh senate.

REVEALED: Politicians who visited Aso Rock in the past were given $100, 000 – Presidency

Senator Babafemi Ojudu

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu has revealed that under previous administrations, a chief or politician who pays a visit to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa is handed $100,000 or $50,000 when leaving.

Speaking in an interview with Leadership newspapers, the presidency official, however, pointed out that his principal has put a stop to the practice as such cash gifts are now diverted into productive services and the provision of infrastructure.

In the words of Ojudu, “In the past, somebody would come to Aso Rock, a chief or a politician. And they package $100,000, $50,000 for him. The man gets back to his hotel room, dashes his driver $500, dashes his PA $1,000, his girl friend $200. This has stopped. Such money must go into productive services, medical services, infrastructure etc.

One Died as Police Attack Governor Fayemi And Senator Ojudu During APC Rally In Ado Ekiti (+ Photos)

A street rally in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, led by Senator Babafemi Ojudu to drum up support for the re-election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State turned bloody on Sunday as a contingent of the Nigeria anti-riot police led by their commander in the state, Selenkere Michael, an indigene of Bayelsa State, pounced on the APC members, tear-gassing and shooting at them. 

According to reports, the carnival-like street rally went on peacefully until the police unleashed a volley of teargas canisters and later used live bullets that killed a party member. 

A few minutes after the attack, the state governor, Kayode Fayemi arrived the scene of the attack to ascertain what happened, the rampaging policemen did not spare him, he was tear-gassed while some members of his security detail and the commissioner for integration in Ekiti State, Niyi Afuye, were arrested and taken away from the scene.