Nigeria: R-APC Raises the Alarm Over Alleged Plot to Impeach Saraki, Ekweremadu Wednesday

12 August 2018

The National Working Committee of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) has again raised the alarm over alleged plot by the APC to use the Wednesday resumption date of the National Assembly for the "illegal" impeachment of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

A press statement issued in Abuja Sunday by the R-APC's spokesman, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said Adams Oshiomhole-led APC was hell-bent on giving nebulous interpretation to the provision of the 1999 constitution (as amended) - by using the numbers of senators present to effect impeachment of the two presiding officers.

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