A former acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has hinted on moves by some people to impeach Dr Bukola Saraki as the president of the Nigerian Senate as he warns of dire consequences for such action.
Bugaje, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and member of the party’s board of trustees (BoT), reportedly said the plot to impeach Saraki will not stand adding that it would boomerang.
He told journalists in Kwara state during a prayer session to commemorate his 67th birthday, that there were ongoing gimmicks by certain forces to impeach Saraki.
He however warned that those behind the impeachment plot should tarry because of the dire consequences adding that Saraki’s camp would be watching to know the length the plotters would go to achieve their target
“Many of us helped to build APC. I’m one of them, he (Saraki) was and still one of them. We are still building the party. I think the party has not made a statement about the so called threat to impeach him. We only learnt from the news that we read and from hearsays.
“And I think very sincerely, there must be ground before you impeach somebody like him, and they (Senators) have their own rules and regulations and we all have constitutions that guide impeachment.
“If the Senate president is seen to have violated such rules, why not?
“But sincerely as of today and to the best of my knowledge, I don’t think any Senate president in the past, in the immediate-past or long past, has held the Senate like Bukola Saraki has been holding it.
“He has been seeing to be a team player, he has been seeing to be leader that carries the Senate along and he has been seeing to be somebody, who can endure, give and sacrifice for this nation.
“Remember that he got to that position like a war, as if he was fighting a war. Today, even those people, who opposed him, are the most fanatical people, who are his supporters today. So, what reason do you want to say you have to want to impeach such a person.
“I’m aware there is lot of gimmicks, but the worst one that would boomerang against anybody who is planning anything, is to say they want to impeach Bukola Saraki.
“That Senate is solid as I have never seen. I believe it would keep bouncing. There are other ways that the gimmicks are going, let us all keep watching. We can only wish Nigeria well.
“But I only hope and pray that Nigerians will not be destroyers of their hope. Bukola Saraki is young that is what I mean by hope; he has age on his side; he is brilliant; he knows Nigeria; he has dream for Nigeria. If today, we now stand to say we want to destroy such people, then that is why I said I hope and pray that Nigeria will not destroy its own future,” he said.P
In a related story Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, the head and spiritual leader of INRI Spiritual and Evangelical Church has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the advice of former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to seek re-election in 2019.
Primate Ayodele said the president should rather support Senate President Bukola Saraki to become the presidential candidate of the Alll Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 elections.
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