Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko
Yakasai has given reasons some members of the National Assembly will backpedal
in the reported plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, some of the
lawmakers will need the help of the party and the support of their governors
and the President in their bid to return for another term and so would not want
to involve themselves in the impeachment processes.
Yakassai also spoke of the trial
of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, alleging that Buhari is aware of the
actions of the police and is using the Inspector General of Police, IGP,
Ibrahim Idris to trouble the Senate.
Speaking on the alarm raised by a
former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Buhari is trying to harm him,
Yakassai told Sun that Obasanjo may go through the same trial as Saraki.
He said, “If the police can go
and arrest a senator and put him in their wagon, isn’t that enough indication
that a lot can come thereafter. Now, the Senate President is placed in a
situation where he has been implicated by some suspects who are under pressure
from the police.
On the impeachment threat by the
legislature, Yakasai said, “Minority would have their say, but the majority
would have their way. What is the position of the majority in the National
Assembly? It’s what we should see.
“Everybody must not think alike,
but then we have to look at the position of the majority. The joint meeting of
the National Assembly has given us an idea of where the pendulum is tilting
towards in the coming days.
“The problem with the National
Assembly in this regard is this…the president, by Obasanjo’s declaration, is
the leader of the party. And the governors in their respective states are the
leaders of the party.
“Now, we are approaching the
primaries of the parties where some of the members would like to be endorsed.
So, I will not be surprised if some of them who are looking for support from
either the president or the governors are unwilling to partake in any move to
check some of these things.
Of Obasanjo and the allegation of
pending harassment by the Buhari government, Yakasai said, “If his alarm was
before the Senate President’s episode, I would have held some reservation
regarding it. But you remember that the Senate President on the floor of the
Senate indicated that armed robbers arrested in Kwara State were being
transferred to Abuja.
“He also alerted the Senate that
he learnt from the governor of Kwara that they were being forced to implicate
him. And a few days afterwards, the Senate President was invited by the police
and the police said that it was in connection with the armed robbery incident.
“Ordinarily, I doubt that a man
in the person of the Senate President, with amount of privileges and resources
at his disposal long even becoming the Senate president and also taking into
consideration also the resources he must have inherited from his father, the
reputation of his family and his own reputation as a former governor, that he
would allow himself to get involved in armed robbery.
“In addition, you would recall
that the Inspector General of Police had recently said that the Senate
president did not like him. I read it in the papers.
“I am aware that Obasanjo is
openly opposed to the second term of Buhari and some of the government functionaries,
particularly those who are connected to the next election – the police, the
security operatives, INEC – have blind loyalty to the person of President
Buhari.
“I would not be surprised,
therefore, if the alarm raised by Obasanjo becomes true. I now tend to believe
him rather than disbelieve him in the light of what has just happened to the
Senate President.”
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com