
The police on Wednesday said they had not withdrawn their invitation to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, over his alleged link with suspected robbers, who invaded banks in Offa on April 5, 2018.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, who stated this in Abuja while parading two more suspects of the robberies, said Saraki must appear in person to defend himself.
The Senate President, had, on his Twitter handle on Monday morning, said he had yet to get any invitation from the police. He said he had informed his aide-de-camp to get the invitation from the police.
Later on Monday, Saraki said he had received a letter from the police asking him to respond to the allegations in writing.
However, in an interview with some pressmen on Wednesday, the police spokesman Jimoh Moshood denied that the Senate President was asked to send his written defence.
He insisted that investigators were still expecting the Senate President to report to the Force Intelligence Response Team office at Guzape, Abuja, to explain his links to the five gang leaders involved in the robberies.
Moshood said, “The invitation was never withdrawn. I read to you (journalists) that the Senate President was being invited to come and answer to the allegations levelled against him by the five gang leaders here. We are expecting him in person. As I said earlier on, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has a case to answer.”
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