Impeachment Plot: 49 Senators Restate Support For Saraki

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Forty-nine senators have written Senate President Bukola Saraki expressing their support to his leadership as the Number 3 citizen.

The 49 senators who are members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had last week signed a document passing a vote of confidence ‎on the Senate President.

Their last week’s action ‎came immediately after the siege laid on the National Assembly by men of the Department of State Security (DSS).

As a follow up to their action, the 49 senators wrote a letter to Saraki, assuring him that no impeachment against him would succeed since the remaining senators, 60, do not form the two-thirds constitutional requirement to remove him.

Saraki’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Yusuph Olaniyonu who gave the hint to newsmen the development, however, could not give details of the letter.

At present, there are currently 54 APC senators, and 49 PDP senators. There are other two; one each from the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

There are two vacant seats from Katsina and Bauchi states, which had been won by APC candidates in the Saturday’s by-elections conducted in the two states, but the winners are yet to be sworn in in due course.

It would also be recalled that one APC senator from Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, was recently sentenced to prison. Although he was said to have appealed the judgment, he has been out of‎ the Senate ever since.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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