At the beginning of this republic in 2015, Senators elected Bukola Saraki, to serve as their President. The decision obviously did not go down well with the hierarchy of the ruling party-the All Progressive Congress (APC) because it reportedly disorganized her zoning arrangement.
Thereafter, Saraki had to face several challenges including his long drawn out trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on charges of incorrect declaration of assets. But not many disbelieved Saraki’s thesis that he was only being politically victimized.
Other challenges such as the accusation of his being behind the celebrated Offa bank robbery clearly showed that Saraki was going down in history as the most harassed Senate President ever. It was probably for this reason that Senator Victor Umeh, (Anambra Central) had to make a call for the leadership of the National Assembly to also have immunity.
By the time the Judiciary left Saraki off the hook, many of his admirers assumed that the worst days were over which turned out to be a farce. The politics of 2019 took over, pitching the legislature and the executive into a cat and rat game over the control of everything especially the budget.
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