The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, on Friday challenged the “Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to stop deluding themselves and come to terms with the reality
that they lack the legislative number and constitutional facilities to impeach
Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, or
to even call for their resignation.”
PDP said the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led administration and the APC, “having realized that there is no way
they can muster the constitutionally required two-third votes of the 109
senators (representing 73 senators), engaged in underhand tactics, including
the invasion of the National Assembly, which turned out a disgraceful
adventure.”
This was contained in a statement
by the PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, which read in part, “Even before then,
Nigerians were already aware of moves to use humongous funds to induce
lawmakers to trigger crisis in the National Assembly and pave the way for the
removal of presiding officers.
“Now that they have discovered
that there is no way they can achieve their devious intentions, they have
commenced a war of blackmail, distortions of fact and media trial against the
Senate leadership, which, of course, will end up as another wasteful venture as
Nigerians are aware of the long-drawn desperation of the Buhari Presidency to
annex the legislature.
“Even among the ranks of the
depleted APC senators and members of the House of Representatives, there is a
huge aversion to the underhand tactics being deployed by the Buhari Presidency
and the APC to force out duly elected presiding officers of the National
Assembly.
“As such, such lawmakers are
fully aligned with Nigerians, the PDP and the National Assembly leadership in
the protection of the independence, sanctity and integrity of our parliament
and all democratic institutions in our land.
“It is therefore instructive for
both the Buhari Presidency and the APC to know that there is no way they can
remove the leadership of the National Assembly, particularly the Senate.”
The main opposition party went on
to caution the Presidency and the APC “to stop overheating the polity with
their outbursts and shed future perverse attempts to circumvent our rules and
constitution, as such will not help them or change the resolve of Nigerians to
vote them out in 2019.”
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