Nigeria gradually sliding into a totalitarian state, says Shehu Sani on invasion of senate

Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna south, has described the invasion of the senate chambers as an attempted coup d’état.

On Wednesday, Omo-Agege, a suspended senator from Delta state, stormed the senate with suspected thugs who carted away with the mace.

Omo-Agege was said to have sneaked in through one of the glass barricades within the national assembly.

Reacting to the incident, Sani said the invasion is an open and undisguised assault on our democracy and a desecration of our constitution.

“The armed invasion of the senate chambers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria stands condemned. It’s treasonable and nothing but an attempted coup d etat,” Sani said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Nigeria is gradually sliding into a totalitarian state. The inferno of violence has moved from the hinterlands to the heights of constitutional authority. The armed invasion is a well-coordinated action aimed violating and incinerating the parliament.”

The senator said the senate has a duty to morally and constitutionally defend and protect the parliament to keep the stream of liberty and the rivers of justice flowing without restraints or diversion or pollution.

Omo-Agege was suspended in April for kicking against the election reordering bill.

Not long after the incident on Wednesday, Omo-Agege was arrested by the police.