The All Progressives Congress,
APC, has given reason it gave up the plan to impeach the Senate President,
Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara,
following their defection.
The APC, speaking through its
National Auditor, Dr. George Moghalu, told Daily Sun that the rigid
stipulations for the impeachment of the principal officers have compelled the
ruling party to shelve the idea.
Moghalu pointed out that though
the party desires to impeach Dogara and Saraki, the prevailing circumstance
made it impossible.
Recall that the national
leadership of the party had on different occasions, vowed to impeach the Senate
President and the House of Representatives’ Speaker after their defection to
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Asked if the ruling party has
given up on the move, Moghalu said, “The situation is not about given up, the
present reality is that as a law-abiding party, one thing is the wish, while
another is the act itself.
“We wish to have the leadership
of the two chambers as a party, but the point is that the reality on ground
will not make it achievable.
“Considering the prevailing
reality, the possibility of changing the leadership of the two chambers is not
there, because we need the required number to so.
“Don’t forget that we are in a
constitutional democracy. We may be left with no other option than to live with
the current situation because we don’t have another choice.
“However, my simple appeal is
that the common denominator is the unity of Nigeria.
“We must all be accountable to
the country. We have to place Nigeria first in whatever we do, whether we are
in the opposition or ruling parties.”
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