Efforts by the Nigerian Senate leaders to stop the arraignment of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, for alleged forgery of the Senate standing rules, has failed.

The senate leaders were said to have, on Wednesday, held a two-hour long closed door session with the members of the Senate Unity forum, who are litigants in the case.

According to Punch, the Senate urged the Unity forum to withdraw the case but they turned down the appeal on the grounds that the case has been handed over to the federal government.

Speaking on the session, a Senator present at the session and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Punch that based on recommendations by the Senate Peace and Reconciliation Committee, the litigants were asked to withdraw the case.

The Peace Committee recommended that senate should recompose the appointments to Senate committees, withdrawal of the suit and disbanding of groups within the senate.

The source was quoted to have said, “The senators, who went to court, were of the opinion that the case had attained another dimension because it was the Federal Government that is now prosecuting those who allegedly produced the fake document.”