Nobody can remove Saraki as Senate President, says Bukar Abba Ibrahim

Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim (Yobe East, APC) has said that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has the full support of 95 per cent of Senators in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, despite his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The former Yobe State governor, who spoke in Abuja, said “nobody can remove Senator Saraki as Senate President. I maintain that Saraki will complete his term as the President of the 8th Senate”.
According to the third-term Senator, the leadership crisis that brought about factions in the Senate (the Bukola Saraki faction and Ahmed Lawan faction) has been largely resolved.
His words: “It (the leadership crisis) has been substantially reduced to a very minimal level. But as I said earlier, there is a court case. If one person or even two people decided to go to court, there is nothing we can do other than to wait for the court judgement. So, that one is pending. But generally, the Senate is peaceful. When we are debating national issues, you wouldn’t know who is PDP or who is APC. So, the problem has substantially subsided. And I am confident that Bukola Saraki will complete his term. I don’t support the idea of stepping aside. Ninety-five per cent of the Senators in the Senate are fully behind the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. So, the issue of stepping aside does not arise. In any case, this court case, nobody knows when it will end. They might even go on and on and on until his term is over. So nobody can really say.”