You Can’t Remove Saraki, Ekweremadu – PDP Tells APC, Presidency

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said that there is a huge aversion by members of the National Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the underhand tactics being deployed by the Presidency and the ruling Party to force out duly elected presiding officers of the National Assembly.
The PDP therefore called on President Muhammadu Buhari and APC to stop deluding themselves and come to terms with the reality that they lack the required legislative number and constitutional facilities to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, talk more of calling for their resignation.
It also said that lawmakers are fully aligned with Nigerians, the PDP and the National Assembly leadership in the protection of the independence, sanctity and integrity of the nation’s parliament and all democratic institutions in the country.

The opposition Party noted that the Buhari Presidency and 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.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said 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.
Ologbondiyan said; “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.

“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 PDP therefore cautioned the Buhari Presidency and the APC to stop overheating the polity with their outbursts and shed future perverse attempts to circumvent Nigeria’s rules and constitution, as such will not help them or change the resolve of Nigerians to vote them out in 2019.