As the impeachment threat in the Senate against President
Goodluck Jonathan gains momentum some senators have described the
threat as a mere rumour.
It would be recalled that last week, 63 senators with some members of
the House of Representatives (reportedly 200) appended their signatures
to an impeachment notice for President Jonathan.
LEADERSHIP recalls that last week chairman Senate Committee on
Media and senate spokesman, Enyinnaya Abaribe reacting to the
impeachment threat described it “as rumour and figment of imagination of
those concocting it which would not be dignified with any further
reactions”.
However some lawmakers have debunked the impeachment threat adding
that they heard about it in the media and not from the Senate or from
individual senators.
Minority whip of the Senate, Ganiyu Solomon (APC Lagos West)
said he never heard anything like that either from the Senate or from
any senator .
According to him, “Honestly, I have been in Lagos for quite some time
but I have not heard anything like that neither did anybody speak to me
about it. But I will be in Abuja on Monday (today), maybe we can see so
that I find out if there is anything like that”.
Similarly, Senator Barnabas Gemade, (PDP Benue North East) denied
having knowledge of the impeachment plot saying “I am in my home in
Benue, and I don’t want to comment on what I don’t know anything about. I
am not aware and nobody has met me on the issue you raised. But you can
meet Abaribe because he is the spokesman of the Senate”.
Ditto for Senator Joshua Dariye (PDP, Plateau Central) who simply
said “I don’t know anything about that; I am not aware of any such
plot”.
However, an APC senator from the North East who spoke on
condition of anonymity stated that the plot or the rumour emanated from
an aggrieved PDP high ranking senator in the Senate over the issue of
automatic ticket allegedly denied him and others by the party.
He said the prayers of the APC senators is that the rumour should
turn out to be true in form of real plot this week, so as to teach
Jonathan the lesson of his life by making him to be the first president
that would be booted out.
“They the PDP Senators especially a highly ranking one among them ,
started this rumour about possible impeachment plot against Jonathan two
weeks ago over their party wahala which we in the APC initially felt
does not concern us, but since they continued last week, we have also
shown interest after all, the person the plot is against , is someone
that has committed series of impeachment offences,” he said.
SOURCE: http://leadership.ng/news/392351/impeachment-threat-jonathan-mere-rumour-senators
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