Our Reporter: ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja
More trouble looms for the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) as senators have joined the battle against
the party and President Goodluck Jonathan.
Senators have vowed to show solidarity with embattled
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu
Tambuwal, by refusing to work on the 2015 budget
They have also resolved to shut down the economy and
move against President Jonathan as they have started
compiling alleged impeachable offences against him.
Also, the lawmakers have pointed fingers at the
Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance
Minister, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for “deliberately
starving the National Assembly of our statutory
allowances for the second month now.”
However, they opened a window of reconciliation : they
want automatic tickets for senators angling for a
return to the chamber, while the president should
compel Okonjo-Iweala to release their four quarterly
allocation “which should have been paid since October.”
Drama started yesterday when senators filed into the
chamber for plenary and the legislative business of the
day. With the absence of Senate President, David Mark,
his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, led other principal
officers, including Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba,
Senate Whip, Bello Gwarzo and Minority Whip, Ganiyu
Solomon, into the chamber after a 30-minute delay.
Shortly after the opening prayer and some
announcements, Ndoma-Egba moved a motion that all
items on the Order Paper for the day “be stood down,”
and Solomon, who observed that though no reason was
given for the adjournment , seconded the motion.
Thereafter, Ekweremadu announced that the PDP
caucus would meet in the Senate president’ s conference
room for a brief meeting. Banging hard on the gavel, he
adjourned plenary till today. The meeting lasted less
than 10 minutes
But a ranking senator, who asked not be named told
Daily Sun why lawmakers were at daggers-drawn with
the president and the party.
His words: “The party did not protect us during last
Saturday’s ward congresses. We have decided that
there will be no sitting; there will be no legislative
business. Jonathan has lost the Senate. He has left us
at the mercy of governors to treat us anyhow and they
have removed everybody from the congress.
“We are not doing the jobs of the governors yet, they
want to decide for us how to do our own jobs and all of
them are saying we are not coming back! What kind of
nonsense is that?
“So, we decided we will shut down government and let us
all know what is happening. There is nothing else to lose.
Every morning, we will show up and adjourn. The PDP
senators are dissatisfied about what is happening in our
party. Once we get into plenary, we will adjourn and as
we do that, we will do solidarity with Tambuwal. We may
even commence his impeachment. Since we are going
down, we are going to go down with him.
“Let us all go down except he makes a U-turn and treats
us the same way he is treating PDP governors right now.
If he is giving them automatic tickets, then, every PDP
senator that wants to return to the Senate must be
given automatic tickets.”

I don't know but let the rule of law and the will of God prevail....God bless Nigeria

Give them money. That's what they wanted.
Bunch of thieves!!!

Greedy thieves

Waste of time...

dcaliph:
Greedy thieves

i thought they are fighting for us,but for there pocket...ndi ara yi akwa

Power and Position good ooo.
senathieves

I thought there was honour among thieves....les honorables

The masses had been lamenting and they keep blaming the opposition for our pains but now that the heat had gotten to our self centred senators, it is now becoming very interesting.
GEJ keep doing it-TAN

Jonathan,2015 will be very different to 2011 these are the signs here and there.

If he is giving them automatic tickets, then, every PDP
senator that wants to return to the Senate must be
given automatic tickets.”

To the best of my knowledge, this is not an impeachable offence. It's not out of place to say, Jonathan can go on committing impeachable offences against the Nigerian state and stay in office as long as he's pleasing the National Assembly.
So they are now bitter that their statutory allocations have not been released and that most of them may not be returning to the chamber? Are they worried that the budget is not being implemented? Are they worried that the FG didn't execute any capital project as at July ending?
These guys are only representing their own stomachs!

My warning: for the interest of PEACE N UNITY in this country, they should not try impeaching the presidency at this time.Nigeria is a timed bomb about to explode. Nigeria be unrest if they try this nonesense.

hmmmmmm...gej is in for it this time around, 2015 will b like a movie to him,he will not believe it.. ohhh apc am very very Sorry for not supporting yu guys all this while... i tort d shoeless one will b better,but now my eyes are open.....

And how does the interests of the Nigerians in the street come in here?

***2015 General Elections is here....get your voters registration card from 13th November, ask aspirants what they have to offer(of course you will know their antecedents), vote for value and be prepared to DEFEND your votes*****

enigmaotr:

To the best of my knowledge, this is not an impeachable offence. It's not out of place to say, Jonathan can go on committing impeachable offences against the Nigerian state and stay in office as long as he's pleasing the National Assembly.
So they are now bitter that their statutory allocations have not been released and that most of them may not be returning to the chamber? Are they worried that the budget is not being implemented? Are they worried that the FG didn't execute any capital project as at July ending?
These guys are only representing their own stomachs!

My guy leave that thing

It doesn't matter what the best of your knowledge thinks

GEJ already has a stockpile of impeacheable offences, the lawmakers only need to bring out one or two and impeach him, the rest will be used against him at the International Criminal Court.

Automatic ticket and their fair share of the $1billion security loan to enable their smooth campaign
BTW when will these political parties allow for free and fair party primaries? The ward Congresses are just a charade
When will they allow for new faces?

soe:


My guy leave that thing

It doesn't matter what the best of your knowledge thinks

GEJ already has a stockpile of impeacheable offences, the lawmakers only need to bring out one or two and impeach him, the rest will be used against him at the International Criminal Court.

And it take an infringement on them to push for his impeachment? Who are they representing, the people who voted for them or themselves? Why have they been looking the other way all these while the FG have been molesting the masses democratically?
They should impeach him if they wish, but they know it's only for their own interests!

Yawn!

When u say ''our speaker'' and you cannot clearly state who the ''our'' is, i begin to wonder if this is a ghost post.

Fake post... if not tell us your source NONSENSE

Dream on Senators!

vecman22:
hmmmmmm...gej is in for it this time around, 2015 will b like a movie to him,he will not believe it.. ohhh apc am very very Sorry for not supporting yu guys all this while... i tort d shoeless one will b better,but now my eyes are open.....

It will still be business as usual, Mark my words. They carry no electoral weights. The governors are in charge and that's why gej is on their side. If the senators cough a second time, they'll get a courtesy call each from efcc and they'll behave. So bro, don't get excited

vecman22:
hmmmmmm...gej is in for it this time around, 2015 will b like a movie to him,he will not believe it.. ohhh apc am very very Sorry for not supporting yu guys all this while... i tort d shoeless one will b better,but now my eyes are open.....

All hope iz not lost yet
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mikeansy:
Yawn!

Hungry?

Shey u geh egusi or okro soup ni?

micheal obi abi sokoto, ur reasoning no far from mikel obi playng skills. no sense n agility in it, so ancient just like scalar quantity.

Watching

Ghana must go will soon change hands. Our National Assembly is like a business centre.

poiZon:
michael obi abi kabiru sokoto, ur reasoning no far from mikel obi playng skills. no sense n agility in it, so ancient just like scalar quantity.

Scalar quantity ko, vector quality ni
Abeg dress joor