Out of 109 members of the Senatoe, 63 have reportedly appended their signatures in support of the plot to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan in the upper legislative chamber, as of Thursday, November 27, 2014, Punch reports
The list was provided by one of the senators with the signatures of the 63 senators out of which eight were from Peoples Democratic Party.
Speaking with the press, an All Progressives Congress senator from the North-West zone, who pleaded anonymity said that the lawmakers’ major grouse was the President’s handling of the economy and political affairs of the country.
He stated that the reasons for the impeachment motion ranged from poor implementation of the national budget since 2011 to alleged high level of corruption and “gross disregard” of the Federal and state legislatures.
In reaction to speculations that the impeachment process might not be that easy, the senator said, “ We know and we are prepared to show the President that we have responsibility to the people and the nation in general.
“We are prepared to lay the impeachment notice anytime from next week. Meetings are already being held.”
While confirming the impeachment motion, Senator Ibrahim Musa of Alliance Progressive Congress in Niger North said, “I think there is something like that but I don’t have the details, it is still coming as a rumour.”
Meanwhile, the PDP senators had been reportedly asking their APC opponents to hold on till next week for the result of the moves by the senate leadership to ensure the realisation of the automatic tickets agreement they had with the PDP and Jonathan.
Furthermore, an anonymous APC senator said that the impeachment letter was signed by both APC and PDP senators.
He said, “The truth of the matter is that the impeachment notice would have been laid if not for our colleagues in the PDP who pleaded with us to delay the process pending when the senate leadership would come up with the result of its efforts at securing automatic tickets for them.
“In any case the process had started but if we submit the letter now, the signatures of the PDP senators will be there and the party might want to use that as an excuse to deny them their automatic tickets.”
