Saraki, Ekweremadu’s impeachment: PDP rebukes APC, Presidency

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the claims by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) that it planned to attack APC senators as
"laughable, childish."

It said the allegation "shows that the Buhari Presidency and the
ruling party have come to a wits end in their plot to illegally
impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike
Ekweremadu."

PDP said the ruling APC was "hallucinating by linking it with any
attempt to attack anybody, including senators, whereas Nigerians are
aware that, if anything, it is the APC that has been involved in
sponsoring violence and attacks in the residences of the presiding
officers of the Senate as well as in the National Assembly."

A statement by PDP's spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, "Equally
derisory is the APC's claims that it is in talks with some PDP
senators to get a two third vote to impeach the Senate presiding
officers when it is public knowledge that all PDP senators are loyal
to their party and had already pledged their loyalty to the presiding
officer which they elected by themselves.

"It is, therefore, foolhardiness for the leadership of the APC, to
contemplate a capacity to impeach the presiding officers of the
National Assembly whereas they are neither senators or members of the
House of Representatives.

"It is also funny that rather than lobby senators and members on their
party position, if they have any, the APC leadership toed the path of
brigandage, claiming to have powers to upturn or upstage the
leadership that it did not ab-initio bring into existence.

"Confronted by the realities of its shameful adventure, the APC
leadership has now turned around in its trademark shambolic character
to begin to look for scapegoats and who to hold responsible for their
failures.

"It is necessary to impress it on the APC that Nigerians, in
attracting a democratic lifestyle, have since abandoned the garrison
command leadership approach of any Nigerian, no matter how highly
placed.

"Therefore, it is too late in the day for the APC to attempt to deploy
underhand tactics that are strange to democratic norms to remove a
duly elected Senate leadership."