Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, on Monday said
operatives of the State Security Service prevented him from “greeting”
President Muhammadu Buhari at a state dinner organised to mark 2016 Democracy
Day.
According to Bruce, who
joined his colleagues to a dinner to mark the 2016 democracy day, he had
attempted to greet the president like a senator did, but the security agent
denied him access.
The dinner was hosted by
Mr. Buhari, and had in attendance the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki;
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar and a national leader of the All Progressives
Congress, Bola Tinubu, among others.
He did not name the
senator that was allowed passage to the president after he (Murray-Bruce) was
bounced.
“I was at the Presidential
Villa today, went to the president’s table. DSS wouldn’t allow me greet him,
but let another senator greet him,” Murray-Bruce said via his twitter handle on
Monday.
“My critics say I
shouldn’t criticize the president openly, so I go and meet him one on one and
I’m blocked. Am I not a Nigerian citizen?
“If PMB’s handlers
selectively block access to him, he runs the risk of being surrounded only by
sycophants!
“I have nothing against
the President, however, nobody is too important to be criticized and my mouth
will never be silenced!
Mr. Murray-Bruce, who is a
Peoples Democratic Party member, and one of the ardent critics of the Buhari
administration, had earlier tweeted a photo of himself in the company of other
guests at the dinner.
Few hours before the villa
incident, he tweeted: “It’s ‘fantastically corrupt’ that Nigeria maintains a 10
plane Presidential fleet whereas the PM of a rich nation like UK flies
commercial!”
On Sunday, the lawmaker
alleged that Buhari and his ministers spent the whole of last year giving
excuses.
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