Senator Kabiru Marafa has vowed
that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu as well as
other principal officers in the Senate leadership would be impeached on Tuesday,
July 28, when the upper legislative chamber resumes.
Marafa was reacting to the
alleged plans to suspend pro-Ahmed Lawan senators.
Speaking on behalf of pro-Lawan
legislators, Marafa asked people not to believe that there was a leadership in
place in the Senate, stressing that a proper leadership would be put in place
when the Red Chamber reconvenes next week.
According to him, Saraki and his
three colleagues were occupying illegal offices that according to him, would
soon be swept off their feet.
“Who is Senate leadership? There
is nothing like that in the 8th Senate. What you have is a group of persons
occupying those offices against the rules of the Senate and the Nigerian
Nation! Tell them dem no fit!” He told Vanguard.
The Senate is expected to name
the various committees next week with their membership, after which it will
start full legislative business, having been on a self-imposed recess.
It would be observed that the
chapter XIII, ( 97) -(1) (a) of the Senate Rule says: “There shall be a
committee to be known as Committee of Selection appointed at the commencement
of the life of the Senate to perform the functions allocated to it by these
rules, and for such other matters as the Senate may from time to time refer to
it.
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