The Reformed All Progressives
Congress (R-APC) has asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to declare the seat
of Godswill Akpabio, former minority of the upper legislative chamber, vacant.
Last week, Akpabio formally
defected to the APC at a rally held in Akwa Ibom state.
In a statement on Sunday, Kassim
Afegbua, spokesman of the R-APC, said Akpabio’s seat has become vacant in line
with section 68 of the constitution because there is no division in the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
“We are calling on the senate
president to invoke the provisions of section 68 of the 1999 constitution (as amended)
in declaring the seat of senator Godswill Akpabio vacant,” the statement read.
“It is not on record that there
is division in the opposition PDP, hence this declaration will be a step in the
right direction.”
Afegbua said the All Progressives
Congress (APC) senators are “hell bent” on removing Saraki on Tuesday when the
national assembly resumes to consider the supplementary budget for the 2019
elections.
“By this statement, the national
working committee of the R-APC wishes to alert the public that the factional
leadership of the All Progressives Congress Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has
perfected plans to make the Tuesday, August 14th resumption date another kettle
of fish for the illegal impeachment of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki,” he said.
“This time, they are hell bent on
giving nebulous interpretation to the provision of the 1999 constitution (as
amended) by using the numbers of senators present to provoke an impeachment. To
this end, they have called on all APC senators to make it a point of duty to
participate at the plenary on Tuesday to pass a vote of ‘no confidence’ on the
senate president.
“This will be followed by
orchestrated rancourous plenary session from where impeachment motion would be
raised and their illegality perpetrated.
“There have been two meetings of
the leaders and the senators in the last 48 hours to perfect this approach. The
security agencies have also been briefed according to information reaching us.
The APC factional chairman has been boasting and insisting that the senate
president would be impeached by whatever means because he no longer deserves to
wear the crown.”
The spokesman also called on
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to sack Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of
police (IGP), who has incompetence.”
Afegbua wondered how the police
would exonerate themselves from the blockade of the national assembly last
week.
“We are also calling on the
acting president to sack the current Inspector-general of policd who has shown
a manifest incompetence in the discharge of his responsibilities,” he said.
“For example, how can an interim
report of the police on the Lawan Daura saga litter the pages of social media
platforms when the investigation remains yet inconclusive? How canthe Police
exonerate itself from the act when it was reported that a Deputy Inspector
General of Police, DIG Habila was seen in a meeting with Senators at the Aso
Drive private office of the factional chairman of APC Comrade Adams Oshiomhole?
What was he doing there as early as 10am on that fateful morning of Tuesday,
7th August, 2018?
“We are calling for an
independent judicial investigation panel made of eminent Jurists to investigate
the immediate and remote causes of the failed political coup d’etat that
clearly undermined the legislature as an arm of government, and also the
invasion of the private residences of judges, siege on the residences of the
senate president and his deputy.
“Getting the police to do the job
is to exonerate the police bearing in mind their earlier siege on the
residences of the senate president and deputy senate president barely a week
earlier.”
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