Newspaper Review: Resign now, SGF tells Saraki, Ekweremadu
Daily newspapers in Nigeria today, June 30 focused on the rift between the executive arm of government and the Senate over the trial of Senate president Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu over a forgery allegation.
Daily Sun newspaper
Daily Sun is reporting that there was pandemonium yesterday at Maryland on Ikorodu Road, Lagos as street hawkers protested the killing of one of them by a truck.
The deceased was fleeing from the officials of Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) who were arresting street traders on the highway.
At least, 14 vehicles belonging to the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) and that of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command were destroyed.
Guardian newspaper
Vanguard newspaper is reporting that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal, has thrown himself into the fray in respect of alleged forgery trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, asking the principal officers of the Senate to resign their positions.
The Senate, in a swift reaction last night, said the two principal officers of the Senate will not resign, insisting that it was being assaulted by the executive arm of government in the ongoing trial of its leaders.
Also on the front page of The Nation is the report on the trial of the Senate President and his deputy by the federal government.
The Federal Government has urged Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu to face their forgery case and clear their names instead of politicising the matter.
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina on Monday admonished Saraki and Ekweremadu to leave President Muhammadu Buhari out of their fate after Saraki complained that he was being persecuted.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal yesterday said the Senate principal officers should not give the impression that the case against them is an Executive versus Legislature war.
Punch newspaper
On the front page of Punch is a report that the Federal Government has commenced moves to seize two mansions allegedly belonging to the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.); and a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting in the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun.
Punch said it learnt that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had traced two houses in the highbrow areas of London to Amosu and Adigun.
“We identified a detached house at 93b Shirehall Park, London, NW42QU, belonging to Adigun. The house was bought at the cost of £875,000 (N333,375,000) while we traced another house to 50 Tenterden Grove, NW41TH, belonging to Amosu. The house was bought at over £1m (N381m),” a source was quoted.
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