In spite of the ten reasons he has so far adduced for not appearing before the Code of Conduct Tribunal today, to respond to allegations
of improper declaration of assets during his tenure as the Governor of Kwara State, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, according to journalist and legal practitioner, Mr. Richard Akinola, goofed big time.
Commenting on the now very controversial matter hours ago, on his Facebook, the blunt and fearless gentleman had this to say:’…What does it take for him to appear in court where he would be given bail in his personal recognizance, particularly since he knows that he has no immunity, even as Senate President?
‘That would have saved him all this embarrassment. If his present travail has the President’s imprimatur, then he is in for a long night. He should have learnt from the lessons of James Ibori. Under Yar’Adua, Ibori behaved like the alternate President, even disrespecting the then Vice President Jonathan. It was the turn of Jonathan to extract his own pound of flesh when Jonathan became President and the rest is history.
‘With the benefit of hindsight, it was a wrong move for Bashorun MKO Abiola to have rejected the ‘arrangee’ conditional bail contrived for him by Abacha government on August 5, 1994. Based on the advice from some of his NADECO friends, Abiola rejected the bail because of the conditions attached to it. If Abiola had accepted that conditional bail, he would not have died.
‘And some of those who advised him not to accept the bail conditions are still alive today, even done 360 degrees from the ideals for which Abiola died. The first day Abiola was arrested, bubbling with confidence, he told an associate that he could not spend two days in detention, that his America and western allies would not make it possible. But it was the same American friends that poisoned his tea. Such is life.
‘So, Saraki would be the eventual loser if he gets sucked in by these so-called friends, but who are in actual fact enemies’.
Going further, he blamed Saraki’s current humiliation on three things: First, some of his close fellow senators (including the loud mouth from Kogi State) who continue to egg him on to grand stand. Second, many PDP members, not because they love Saraki, but as long as Buhari would be rubbished or lampooned in the internecine war of political attrition within the APC, with the hope that APC would be weakened in the process and the third one, some sections of the media and some lawyers, who for pecuniary gains, have latched on to Saraki.