Timi Frank
A
meeting has allegedly been convened by the national chairman of All
Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, in tandem with 30 APC
senators on how to impeach the senate president, Bukola Saraki,
according to former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank.
According
to Frank, the 30 APC Senators are led by the Senate leader, Senator
Ahmad Lawan, APC, Yobe North.
Frank
who raised the alarm in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday morning,
said that the APC National Chairman, the DSS and the APC Senators
group met last night in Abuja to perfect strategies on how to carry
out the plot.
He
said that he has reliable information that the meeting was at the
instance of Oshiomhole who is currently pressurizing President
Muhammadu Buhari to accept his proposal of using “crude tactics”
to topple Saraki and his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
He
said reliable information emanating from the meeting that
National Vice Chairman (Southwest) of the APC, Chief Adeniyi Adebayo,
joined Oshiomhole in pushing for the illegality while some
APC Senators and House of Representatives members at the meeting
kicked against the plot saying any “forceful removal of Saraki
without due process will not fly with Nigerians.”
The
lawmakers, he said, were said to have further alerted Oshiomhole and
the APC leadership that they only have 30 Senators on ground which
will fall short of the 73 Senators required to lawfully impeach
Saraki.
Frank
noted that following the red flag raised by some of the APC Senators
who warn of the consequences of the proposed illegality, the meeting
was said to have been rescheduled to reconvene by 11am this
morning enable Oshiomhole to call Mr. President in London at 9am this
morning to brief him on the progress made so far.
It
was further learnt that Oshiomhole is expected to present the
candidature of both Senators Lawan and George Akume to the President
to make his choice during his proposed telephone conversation with
Mr. President by 9am.
He
alleged that the Presidency through the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has increased the $400,000 it is already offering
to lure individual lawmakers to support the plot to illegally impeach
Saraki to $500,000.
According
to him, the lawmakers are also being wooed with offers to drop all
corruption charges against them by the Federal Government.
He
insisted that Saraki’s life and personal safety is at stake while
appealing to Nigerians and leaders of the international community to
urgently speak out to protect the President of the Senate, Saraki,
and safeguard democracy in Nigeria.
He
said that the illegal plot to break into the Senate Chambers to
illegally impeach Saraki, if allowed to happen, could lead to chaos
and anarchy of unimaginable proportion in the country, capable of
burying the nation’s democracy apart from the danger it portents
for the lives, security and safety.
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