The senate has said that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is not fit to hold any public office in the country.
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, said the senate had declared the Idris persona non grata, for failing to honour an invitation by the senate, stressing that he is not fit to hold any public office in Nigeria or any other country.
Rising from its closed door session, Saraki recalled that a court, which idris had approached over his earlier invitation by the Senate, ruled that the senate had the powers to summon him or any other public officer.
Ibrahim Idris
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday condemned the repeated snubbing of the senate’s summons by Idris.
The party said it had noted what it called the deliberate assault on Nigeria’s democratic process, willful denigration of the National Assembly and recourse to totalitarianism and the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari, the nation’s chief security officer, to reprimand him.
A statement by the national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, said it was “instructive to state that never in our democratic history as a people and a nation, has a service chief or an inspector general of police treated the National Assembly with as much dishonor and disdain like the current IGP.”
“Consequently, the PDP, as a party, urges the President of the Senate and senators to protect the institution of the legislature and our democracy by not limiting their action only to finding Mr. Ibrahim Idris as “unfit” to hold public office.
“The PDP, therefore, charges the Senate to take the next step within their legislative instrument and powers to restore the respect and dignity which the generality of Nigerians and the 1999 Constitution (as amended) bestow on them.”