Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, said the PDP would resist any illegal attempt to remove Saraki as the Senate President.
He warned the Federal Government to stop framing up members of the opposition, adding that Nigeria was not a banana republic.
Tambuwal, who just defected from the APC to the PDP, said it was unfortunate that the Federal Government had resorted to framing up anyone with a contrary political view.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives spoke at the special National Executive Committee meeting of the PDP, which was held to welcome defectors to the PDP in Abuja on Thursday.
Apart from Tambuwal, among other defectors who were at the meeting were Saraki; the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom; a former National Chairman of the PDP, Barnabas Gemade; a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso; Senator Dino Melaye and a former Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Africa, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto.
Tambuwal said, “This (frame up) especially on the simple account of disagreement on political leanings is simply unacceptable. And we cannot allow our country to drift further. It is not about anybody, it is not about any interest, this is about the country.
“We must retrieve our nation; we must reposition this country and restructure it for the benefit of Nigerians.
“When they talk about cross-carpeting (defection), I began to wonder. When we cross-carpeted (defected) the other time, did they complain?”
He said that when he heard about alleged plans by some senators to break into the chambers of the Senate to steal the mace and install a pseudo Senate President, he wondered if such people were familiar with the rules guarding democracy.
Tambuwal said, “It is not a gestapo, we are in a democracy and the constitution of this country is very clear that members of the Senate and the House of Representatives can choose from among themselves their own p
