How We Can ‘Legally’ Impeach Saraki – APC Senator

A federal lawmaker of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abu Ibrahim, has refuted the claim that some senators in the party are planning to break into the Senate and impeach its President, Dr Bukola Saraki.

Ibrahim made the refutation after the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Chukwuka Onyema, allegedly claimed that Senators Ali Ndume, Abdullahi Adamu and Ovie Omo-Agege, all of the ruling APC, were trying to break into the Senate on Wednesday.

But dismissing the claim, Ibrahim said APC Senators in the Senate need not break into the upper legislative chamber to impeach Saraki as they could legally reconvene and “do what we want to do” once they are up to thirty.

“How do you break into the chamber? If we like we can reconvene legally because it is legal for us to reconvene,” said the Katsina APC Senator in an interview with newsmen.

“We do not need to break into the chamber when we have the number. I will never subscribe to that.We can reconvene. The rules are there that if we are up to 30 we can reconvene.

“Why should we break into the chamber when we can reconvene legally and do what we want to do.

“It is legal. I do not see why anybody should contemplate that we can break into the chamber.

“I do not know about it and even if I know about it, I will say it is unwise.

” However, if the leadership does not ask for peace, it will not get peace. Peace is a function of leadership.

“I have been in the Senate for about four times. I cannot allow anybody to manipulate me. I cannot take it.”

He further said: “Nobody was elected as Senate President. We all came here as senators. So we have equal footing. We gave you leadership.

“If you fail to give us the right leadership and if majority of us don’t want you anymore, you have to leave.

“Saraki was elected by us. At any time majority of us say he should go he has to go,” he said.

Calling on Saraki to honorably resign, Ibrahim said, “Saraki should resign as Senate President.

“I think it is commendable that he has left the party. He has chosen the path of survival because it is the issue of political survival not anything for Nigeria.

“But next is for him to resign as Senate President because by all conventions all over the world, the majority party produces the leadership; Senate President, the Majority Leader and others.

“Again, let him be gentleman enough and resign as Senate President.

“If he does not, we will never have peace in that Senate because it is absolutely clear that APC has the majority to produce the leadership.”

He equally denied claims by the PDP that they constitute the majority of Senators in the Senate.

“I hear the PDP claiming the majority, but it is crystal clear that APC has the majority. We will have more members. We will conduct two bye-elections and we will have the two members,” Ibrahim claimed.

“We also have some alliance with APGA. It is clear that APC has the majority.”

“APC with the majority should produce the leadership in the Senate. 49 cannot produce the leadership,” he said.