Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday warned against unleashing the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on members of the National Assembly.
Reacting to the EFCCs invitation to the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki to appear before it on Tuesday,the PDP senators said any attempt to unleash the commission on National Assembly members as a result of the leadership crisis in the legislature would not only be constitutionally and lawfully resisted but could have dire consequences on governance in the country.
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) in a statement on behalf of the group said that
much as they were not against the anti-corruption agencies performing their statutory duties, the EFCC invitation to Mrs Saraki was an indication that the threat by a group within the National Assembly that they would use all means to fight the leadership is now being carried out.
Nigerians,he said, should ask EFCC what  they were waiting for all this while before realising that they need to invite Mrs Saraki when she actually left the Government House with her husband in 2011. And why should the invitation come a few days after a senator threatened that his group and their sponsors will bring the Senate President down?.
He added:  We also think that the same witch-hunt that the family of the Senate President is suffering now is the same thing happening to his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who the Police have been disturbing. But let it be known that these two gentlemen and the other leaders of the Senate enjoy the support of 85 senators and at the right time we will jointly make our opinion known on the harassment of our leaders.
The Senators asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that some people do not use his name to misuse state machinery and fight political opponents in the guise of waging war against corruption.