Impeachment doesn't mean removal from office, but it's often a prelude to removing a public official from office. To impeach is to “charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office.”

In other words, it means to formally accuse a public official of a crime. In the United States, it is only the House of Representatives that has the power to impeach the president.

The next procedure after impeachment is trial and then removal or acquittal. In the US, only the Senate has the power to try and remove or acquit a president who has been impeached (by the House of Representatives).

Only two presidents have been impeached in America’s history, and both were acquitted by the Senate.

They are President Andrew Johnson (America’s 17th president who was acquitted by just one vote) and President Bill Clinton (America’s 42nd president).

Donald Trump will be the third president to be impeached, but he won't be removed because his party constitutes the majority in the US Senate.

Nigerian newspapers interchange “impeach” with “remove from office” because they are copying the authors of the Nigerian constitution who don’t seem to know what “impeachment” really means.

In the only two passages in the Nigerian constitution that the word “impeachment” appears, it is used as if it meant “removal.”

Section 146 (3) (a) of the document says, “where the office of vice president becomes vacant – by reason of death, resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or removal in accordance with section 143 or 144 of this Constitution….” Again, in Section 191 (3) (a) of the constitution the following sentence appears: “where the office of deputy governor becomes vacant – by reason of death, resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or removal in accordance with section 188 or 189 of this Constitution….” Well, an office can’t possibly become vacant by reason of “impeachment.”

Just like people don’t go to prison simply because they have been accused of an offense, a vice president’s office can’t become vacant simply because he or she has been impeached.

That would be a perversion of justice. Impeachment simply means accusation, and accusation alone is never a basis for conviction. To convict an accused person, you have to try him or her first. Plus, conviction is not the only possible outcome of a trial.

An accused (or impeached) person can be acquitted after trial, as was the case for the two US presidents that were impeached.

Curiously, the Nigerian constitution never uses the word “impeachment” in relation to the president and state governors; it instead talks of the procedures for the “removal” of the president and of governors from office.

The people who wrote the 1999 Nigerian constitution are clearly not sufficiently educated about the meanings of the terminologies they deployed in the constitution. And they passed on their ignorance to the Nigerian news media and to the Nigerian populace. Some Americans also think impeach=remove.

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Majority carry d vote jare..since na dem plenty pass for senate so it means he stays jare

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Majority carry d vote jare..since na dem plenty pass for senate so it means he stays jare

it doesnt matter , some of republican congressmen are seriously rooting for a Pence as president and 2020 presidential candidate since trump remains less popular everyday

Nigerians are known to misinterpret, but worst is this modern day blogging..

Thanks for the clarity OP, we really needed that, lot of bloggers will keep misleading people with their headlines and most of them won’t bother to read, they just jump to the comment section

See how I'm laughing at Nigerians especially BMC... and gay activists that thought that trump will be removed just like that.

He will still disappointed at last. Just watch

those that voted Change want Trump removed, stay in your country and enjoy ur change!!!

Nigeria can only be better if we can know where our problems are coming from Imagine how some Nigerians hate Barca with passion against Madrid yesterday and Nigeria Govts are OK for them Imagine how some Nigerians just needed Donald Trump out yesterday, is he our problem

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Let's see how the senate trial will unfold in January. Whether he remains in office or not will surely have an impact in coming election

Please in what way does it affect us, let America be abeg, we have a kunun sipper to contend with

After all we are a shithole to them, so either they impeach him or not, it's there cup of coffee

I'm sure many people actually thought it was removal from office. Nigerians are just too dull.

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Dem Jst dey waste their time.... They did not believe the man will win the election in the first place... They've wanted him out since day one... I like trump cause he fulfills campaign promises unlike one buhari

Ok
I like this man for his vocal power

Let's see how it goes... step one taken, step two to go.

It's up to the senate now. The senate will start trail soonest.

Yeah. But his impeachment is a record

we know and the process is still ongoing

US runs a bicameral Legislature just like Nigeria, and scaling through impeachment with all the exposure made about him, scaling a 2020 re election might be difficult

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That the Republican party dominates the US Senate does not mean he won't be impeached.

Donald Trump has locked horns with almost everyone, including a sixteen year old climate activist. He doesn't take advise, he has destroyed many careers because he is very impulsive. Many capable hands have left his government. He is too volatile and his buffoonery is quite unique.

I am sure the old foxes like Senator Mitch McConnell would have been tired of him but won't publicly admit it, because Trump is now a political liability. This impeachment, whether ratified by the US Senate or not, would impact on the Republican party in the next elections. Many risk losing their seats if Trump is acquitted. I suspect some disenchanted Republicans may ask for a secret ballot so no one knows who voted for what. And in the not so unlikely event that that happens, the impeachment would be ratified.

Thanks for the clarification OP.

Nigeria most times is like that dull student that will copy all your answers and even copy your name and exam number too.

The people who sat down to write our constitution were high on Alomo and ogogoro...

Copy and paste constitution

Wow, so does it mean he is stll the president of Nigeria?

They no born them well to remove the Potus. The man that has been giving terrorists across the world a run for their money and in the process saving all of us.

Potus remains US president!

Donald Trump Impeachment Doesn't Mean Removal From Office.
Donald Trump will be the third president to be impeached, but he won't be removed because his party constitutes the majority in the US Senate.

Effects of being supported by ipob

But first step in the removal process

I hope he stays

Wait ooo, them never comot am? Na hin some idiots just wake me up this early morning shouting "Donald Trump has been Impeached, Donald Trump has been Impeached...!!!" Wetin come be the difference between their brain and that of Bubu?