A WhatsApp message was sent to PDP lawmakers by a party leader Wednesday evening, alerting them to the alleged plot by the members of the APC

Fred Itua, Abuja; Wole Balogun, Ado Ekiti


Worried over alleged plots by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to oust the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been summoned to Abuja.

Daily Sun gathered that the PDP senators, who traveled outside Abuja, have been asked by the leadership of the party and its caucus in the Senate to return.

At press time, some senators had already returned to Abuja. The summon, Daily Sun learnt, is to rally round Saraki and Ekweremadu.

The returning senators are expected to hold series of meetings at the weekend to brainstorm on how to checkmate any planned leadership change.

Some senators who spoke in confidence, said they had traveled to the village ahead of senatorial primaries of the party coming up soon. They said their stay outside Abuja was cut short, following recent developments in the polity.

One of them told Daily Sun that senators who traveled outside Nigeria were expected to return before Saturday night, when an elaborate meeting will be held with the leadership of the party.

Already, PDP members in the House of Representatives are meeting to fashion out their own strategy on how to counter an alleged offensive against the leadership of both chambers.

On Wednesday night, PDP caucus in the lower legislative chamber, kept a night vigil at the National Assembly to forestal a purported plan by senators loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari, to reopen the chamber.

Deputy Minority Leader in the House, Chukwuka Onyema, told National Assembly correspondents that they had information that some APC senators had planned to invade the Senate chamber to sit “illegally” and impeach the president of the senate.

The members of the PDP caucus in the House led by Onyema, had assembled in front of the Senate chamber, after they got wind of an alleged plan by some APC senators to converge and impeach Saraki, who announced his defection to the opposition party on Tuesday.

According to him, the APC senators had planned to sit late in the night or early on Thursday morning to remove the Saraki, with the aide of security agencies.

The Deputy Minority Leader said the opposition lawmakers will keep vigil at the National Assembly to see what would happen.

Daily Sun gathered that a WhatsApp message was sent to the PDP lawmakers by a leader of the party, on Wednesday evening, alerting them to the alleged plot by the members of the ruling party to “sneak into the Senate chamber to hold a sitting where they would sack Saraki.”

A senator from Edo Central and member of the PDP, Clifford Ordia who vowed that nobody can impeach Saraki, said in the absence of the senate president, any plan to reopen the National Assembly would be resisted.

“Saraki cannot be impeached. Those planning to remove him through the back door will fail. We will not allow it to happen. They have no right to reopen the National Assembly and they know it,” he said.

However, a chieftain of the APC in Ekiti State, Senator Ayo Arise has called on the leadership of the party to begin moves to ensure members of the National Assembly who defected from the party lose their seats.

Arise, who insisted that there was no division or factions in the ruling party to warrant such mass defection, advised the party to move against all the defectors.

Arise, who represented Ekiti North Senatorial District in the sixth Assembly disclosed that the trend whereby people take mandate of voters to another party must be stopped.

He urged the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to conduct elections to replace defectors.

But a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ahmed Raji, said Saraki has not violated any known law by defecting from the ruling APC to the opposition PDP.

He also agreed that it was only the senate president that is vested with power under the constitution to reconvene the senate, although, he was quick to point out that he did not believe that some senators were scheming to forcefully reopen the senate.

“I do not think anybody has threatened to forcefully reopen the senate. What they have said is that they want to appeal to the leadership to reconvene. If you check their rules, it is the prerogative of the president to convene the senate.”

On the burning issue of legality or otherwise of Saraki’s defection, Raji said any parliamentarian that has defected may lose his seat if there was no division within his party.

http://sunnewsonline.com/alleged-plot-pdp-senators-summoned/

lalasticlala

Worried over alleged plots by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to oust the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been summoned to Abuja.

Sureheaven

Useless senators.....They didn’t run around to make laws that will compel Governors not to owe salaries , they didn’t make laws that will compel Federal Government to provide free reading materials to pupils and students, they didn’t make laws that will compel state governors after 3 months of swearing in to conduct Local Government elections, they are now running around to retain power...
All of you that dont have the interest of the masses/citizens at heart will run and meet sudden and timely death soonest.
i.e All the corrupt and evil politicians in the country......

Lol , see them being so jittery and shaking like a chicken in the rain already!
Even after our Sai Baba told them to chill out that he doesnt have their time!
Dead on arrival
Losers everywhere!
See as Bukola put leg inside plate.
So Dino won't see anything to chop!
Rogue!

Sagay, APC's lawyer says no shaking

https://independent.ng/joining-pdp-doesnt-affect-sarakis-position-as-senate-president-sagay/amp/

More like Coup plotting in senate

This is the only part of the world where you see politicians at par with animals in behaviours, reasoning and mindset.

Naija politics no concern me, I need VISA

Check my signature for Samsung phones

As if last last somebody will not still go back to daura

darasimi34:
who is Lalasticlala

A snake master

Impeach the bastard and traitor.. useless corrupt thief

APC is getting desperate

PDP POWER

Them no fit do anything to Saraki

What a country

very interesting way to be jittery and stupid , I thought APC lawmakers are the minority ? what then is the need to be jittery ?

Racoon:
Everyone should be on alert.APC is desperate as they can stomach the political development around them now.

post=69942091:
Worried over alleged plots by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to oust the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been summoned to Abuja.


Lol , see the being so jittery and shaking like a chicken in the rain already!
Even after our Sai Baba told them to chill out that he doesnt have their time!
Dead on arrival
Losers everywhere!

just lookatyou

SarakiBukola:


My predictions : Buhari would be re-elected, but Senate and House of Reps would be fully PDP. PMB would really hate his 2nd term

This is where the problem in this country lies. For you and your kind it is not about how the Senate should work with the presidency to better the lot of all of us but how to show the president you love to hate hell.

And to Saraki becoming the Senate president again, don't bet on it. APC is wiser now. I they get the majority in the Senate again, forget it what happened the last time won't happen.

And considering happenings in illorin so far, I will not be shocked if saraki doesn't even make it back to the Senate.

game of throne. no politician in Nigeria have masses interest in his or her heart.

v

They are the thieves and are the most afraid. very laughable. when a child has done wrong, he would be afraid that is the position of this God forsaken party - they will be denuded in 2019 - Buhari till 2023




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Saraki is not a nigerian, he should be impich asap.

APC can only try but will not succeed

sai baba... PDP worst nightmare

Apc don't need to impeach the Senate president
What effect can he have

Tho if they want they would do it without noise
Deploy 5000 special trained forces to temporary hold majority of pdp senators

1/3 from a qora impeach him and let him battle with the new senate president it's no big deal

If I'm president someone like saraki would try to undermine my government? They have born am

Defecation from one toilet to another. All na same sh1t.

APC is using power why PDP is using brain, let see who win

post=69942091:
Worried over alleged plots by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to oust the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been summoned to Abuja.


Lol , see them being so jittery and shaking like a chicken in the rain already!
Even after our Sai Baba told them to chill out that he doesnt have their time!
Dead on arrival
Losers everywhere!

programmable machine just because of 30k. Smh for some people

Fake news, Is ApC not yet dead?