A strong member of the Senate Unity Forum, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has asked the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to mention the names of those who wanted to abduct him before his emergence as the leader of the National Assembly.
Marafa, in a text message sent to journalists, tasked them to ask Saraki to name those who wanted to abduct him before getting his full reaction to the allegation.
It could be recalled that Saraki had at an interview with journalists last weekend in Abuja alleged that before the inauguration of the 8th Senate on June 9, 2015, there were plans by some big guns within his party, the All Progressives Congress, stridently opposed to his aspiration to abduct him as a way of preventing him from attending the inauguration and personally accepting his nomination for the position.
According to Saraki, he escaped the abduction plot as he refused to report at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel where all federal lawmakers elect were billed to gather at 8am for onward movement to the National Assembly.
He revealed that he moved faster than everybody by getting to the premises of the National Assembly as early as 6am that day and hid in a car at the car park for four solid hours in a state of incommunicado.
He said: “First of all, as regards the meeting (at ICC), on the morning of the inauguration, I didn’t finish meeting until 4am of that day and I had got information that efforts would likely be made to make sure that I didn’t get access into the chambers.”