Nigeria: Breaking - Nasarawa Impeachment: Tension in Lafia As Self-Exiled PDP Lawmakers Storm Return

Palpable tension has gripped Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, after the Peoples Democratic Party's lawmakers in the state House of Assembly, who fled the state weeks ago, returned in a long vehicles of cars led by siren blaring outriders.

The legislators, who fled the state in the thick of the failed impeachment move against Governor Tanko Al-Makura, arrived from their self-imposed exile two weeks after the Assembly was scheduled to resume [August 4] after a short break.

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