Spokesperson of the Senate Unity Forum, Senator Kabiru Marafa, yesterday challenged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to name those he claimed planned to abduct him on June 9 before his emergence as Senate President.
Senator Marafa, who represents Zamfara Central, in a text message to reporters in Abuja, said Saraki should be prevailed upon to name those who wanted to abduct him as a plot to prevent him from entering the National Assembly Complex on June 9.
Saraki had at an interview with reporters at the weekend claimed that before the inauguration of the Eighth Senate on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, there were plans by unnamed persons to abduct him as a way of preventing him from attending the inauguration and personally accepting his nomination as Senate President.
The Senate President said he arrived at the National Assembly Complex as early as 6am and hid incommunicado at the car park for over four hours.
Saraki said he only went to the Senate chamber around 10am when he was told that the clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, was already in the chamber for the inauguration of the Eighth Senate.
But, Marafa, who was one of the Senators opposed to Saraki’s emergence as Senate President said Nigerians should ask Saraki to name those who attempted to abduct him.
Marafa asked, “Who wanted to abduct him and why.”
The Zamfara lawmaker said he would react fully to the allegation when the names of the alleged abductors are disclosed.