The All Progressives Congress caucus in the House of Representatives on Monday said that it had “enough grounds” to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan but that was not in a hurry to do so.
The APC caucus said the time was not yet ripe to initiate impeachment against the President.
Minority Leader of the House, who is also the APC leader in the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, told our source that neither the caucus nor the entire National Assembly needed a directive from the APC national leadership to impeach the President.
He said lawmakers would monitor the President for now, hoping that he would amend his ways by addressing the allegations raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his controversial letter.
Gbajabiamila said, “As for impeachment, there are enough grounds for impeachment of the President.
“The constitution says you need only one ground, but we have more than one ground already. So, the party (APC) does not have to give us a directive to impeach the President.
“Nobody wants to impeach the President, but we will continue to study the situation to see whether he will sit up.”
He added that the opposition was watching the Peoples Democratic Party closely to see whether it would impeach any of the five governors who defected to the APC recently.
“Particularly interesting is the case of Rivers State. We want to see how they will use five legislators to impeach a governor in that state,” he stated.
Gbajabiamila said the “opposition will respond in the most appropriate manner” should any of the defected governors lose their seat.
When contacted, the PDP caucus in the House warned that it would resist any move to discuss the impeachment of Jonathan at the House.
Deputy Majority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, described such as “wishful thinking.”
He argued that the National Assembly would not contemplate impeaching the President because “one external group” said it should do so.
“Their call is even based on inconsequential issues that negate the spirit of the 1999 Constitution,” he said.
Ogor noted that Jonathan was elected by Nigerians, who could also opt to “impeach” him by refusing to return him to the Presidency in 2015.
Investigations showed that there was no formal communication between the national leadership of the APC and its members in the National Assembly on the issue.
Findings revealed that most APC lawmakers got to know of the directive to impeach Jonathan from the publication of the statement by their interim National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, in some newspapers.
“Such a discussion has not taken place. We have not been contacted, or should I say, I am not aware. The party has not contacted us formally about the impeachment issue,” one APC member in the House confided revealed on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang, on Monday said the Senate would not heed the call by the APC to commence impeachment proceedings against the President.
Enang warned the APC to “stop employing cheap blackmail to take over power through the back door.”
He said, “The National Assembly cannot heed the call of the APC or treat the content of former President Obasanjo’s letter.
“The letter from former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter was not addressed to the National Assembly.
“The issue of impeachment has not arisen. The issue of impeachment of the president has not at all arisen.”
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ReplyDelete"The issue of impeaching the president has not arisen at all"..... is a more pleasant statement. Those clamouring for the president's impeachment in the National assembly should also be aware if they succeed, they will also end up in their various villages because it is very certain that the crisis their inordinate ambition will create in the land will end democracy in Nigeria (perhaps temporarily), but surely none of the present desperadoes will get close to powers any more. All citizens of progrssive countries criticise their leaders constrctively, but Nigeria's case is the opposite. Impeach Jonathan and face the consequences.
ReplyDeleteYoruba proverb: Daju daju eo kan idin ninu iyo" (You will surely see bacteria surviving in salt) an abomination to behold! Is Jonathan a perfect man?? NO! far from it, but who amongst the people calling for his head is in any way better than him? Believe it or not, Jonathan as at now remains the strongest stabilizing factor in the already fractured entity called Nigeria.
IN NIGERIAN POLITICS THE WISE ARE ALWAYS NUETRAL... If You Say GEJ Will Not Continue Who Do You Think You Are Protesting for ???? Not For Nigerians,,,,, Northerners Who Think Of their Selfs alone
ReplyDeleteThey Don't have Oil yet They Control 83% Oil Blocks,, Only a fool Will think We Will Stil Remain as one nation If This Oil Belong To the North.. All This Pressure On GEJ Is Just For Them To grab Power But The Core Northern Leaders Has Failed Again Like Their Propelled Boko Haram..
Let Us See That Angel Micheal That Will Take Over From GEJ,, APC We Are Still Waiting For Your Presidential Candidate....
GEJ can be impeached and nothing will happen. If he refused to listen to the mafians they can do and undo afterall do they care day of judgment.
ReplyDeleteif u think apc can nt impeach dis drunkard then GOD wl do it very soo nd we wl see wat u wl do then,u hv so many options 2 chose 4rom,1knife,2rope,3motor,4river,5poison.etc akuya lyk u.
ReplyDeleteGEJ on point come 2015.... Let those who use the name of the Lord our God in vain go and die....All the anti GEJ will hug transformer .....who is better than GEJ among the APC fools....they need power let them come and take it....failures....who among their governors is better than other governors ...we are not blind folded..we are seeing everything...lagos is working but nothing to show for 21billion IGR every month, nothing to show for billions from FG allocations and other security votes....who among those unreasonable and fraudster legislator is better off... Reject the ghana most go that you people share everyday and return the ones you have taken already so that we will know that you are better...you Grounds to Impeach yourself and GEJ that we voted in the office.... All of you in NASS was selected and not voted so all you NASS will go first before GEJ. God bless Nigeria
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