Anti-Jonathan Senators to move impeachment notice Dec 16 osundefender.org/?p=197855 ABUJA — Indications emerged, yesterday, that the impeachment notice against President Goodluck Jonathan will be presented on the floor of the Senate when it resumes from the recess on December 16. Their House of Representatives counterparts have also promised to make available very soon, the authentic list of those who endorsed the impeachment notice against the President Senator Alkali Jajere representing Yobe South on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, disclosed yesterday that the number of Senators who had signed the impeachment letter was 63 last week and that the number would increase to 70 before end of sitting yesterday, adding that the pro-impeachment Senators which he claimed cut across all the party lines had what it would take to ensure that the impeachment was realised Already, the anti-Jonathan Senators have accused the leadership of the Senate of conspiracy as they claimed that the adjournment of plenary to December 16 was deliberate and a ploy by the leadership to frustrate the impeachment move. Jajere a story teller—Pro-Jonathan group But the pro-Jonathan Senators have alleged that those planning the impeachment may have been operating in spirit as there was nothing to show that such plot existed, even as they described the arrowhead of the alleged plot Senator Jajare as a joker who had taken the joke too far. One of the Senators against the alleged impeachment plot, Senator Ayogu Eze, PDP, Enugu North said: “To me, Jajere is a story teller. We are waiting for him and his other signatories who are more of spirits than human beings in the Senate. “Let me put it to him and his other people that if they think they can intimidate the President or PDP out of power, they are just day-dreaming because the man will contest the 2015 election and going by realities on ground, he will win. So the earlier they realise this, the better for them.” There are impeachable offences against Jonathan —Jajere Speaking to journalists after adjournment on the authenticity of the alleged impeachment plot and the collection of signature, Senator Jajere said: “I have signed the impeachment notice because there are impeachable offences against President Goodluck Jonathan. “This Senate approved N240 billion as subsidy fund but the same government spent N1.7 trillion which is a clear breach of the constitution, clear breach of the appropriation act. “The business of government is to curtail excesses but this government has shown that it is incurable deficient in handling the situations in this country. That government cannot say it wants to continue. “The president should have even resigned without waiting for him to be impeached. The duty of the legislature is to act as a check and balance because it is the most important symbol of democracy. If you don’t have the legislature, you don’t have democracy because every other arm of government exists even when there is no democracy, it is only the legislature that makes a democracy, a government. “As at last week, 63 of us have signed up for the impeachment, my signature was the fourth but I can confirm to you that we have 63 signatures but after the session today, two people had called me and told me that they want to sign. “One of them is an APC senator who was away campaigning because he is contesting the governorship election of his state. The other person is a PDP senator.” Also answering question why the impeachment plan was coming when the first tenure of President Jonathan’s administration was coming to an end, he said: “The impeachment issue is not just coming now. It is a process that started early in the year. There was a hiccup but today, there are issues that have triggered the National Assembly to do what it should do.
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