Nigeria: Again, Saraki Insists APC Cannot Impeach Him

17 September 2018

Senate President and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that calls for his impeachment when the senate resumes for plenary are feeble, stressing that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks the required numbers to carry out that threat. Saraki, who made the assertions during an interactive session with journalists at the PDP secretariat in Minna, explained that the decision of the upper chamber of the National Assembly to go on recess was unanimously agreed on accordance with the rule of law.

The Senate President declared: "Everybody was there, and we all took a decision to adjourn in our normal annual recess. Check the dates we resumed last year, and the year before. There was nothing abnormal about it."Those who are accusing us of undue process in the adjournment are unaware that we are in the majority. They know they don't have the locus standi. The people that are speaking now against it are speaking out of emotions, because everyone was there when the decision was taken. It was not that a few of us met somewhere and took a decision.

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