There is serious rumbling in the National Assembly.
The Senate abruptly adjourned sitting on Tuesday,
25 minutes after resuming plenary with indications
that the senators adjourned in protest.
Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, who moved the
motion for the adjournment, had shortly before then
announced that all PDP members in the senate
would hold an emergency meeting immediately.
Ndoma-Egba urged all members of the caucus to
attend the meeting as crucial decisions would be
taken. The PDP caucus meeting is filled with angry
senators.
Feelers from the meeting indicated that the senators
had mandated their leadership to meet with
President Goodluck Jonathan and the Chairman of
PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on their grievance.
There were indications that the sudden
adjournment was due to threats by some
powerful senators of the PDP to by all
means commence impeachment
proceeding against Jonathan over the
President’s alleged unfair treatment.
A top PDP senator said: “We are down
already and we won’t mind to go down
together with the President. By the time
we start impeachment proceedings
against him, he will sit up and do the
right thing.”
Jonathan was said to have angered the senators by
the “presidential permission” allegedly granted the
PDP governors to choose their preferred candidates
into the legislature, both at federal and state levels.
The PDP senators are angry that Jonathan had
mortgaged their political future to the governors and
the lawmakers had vowed to show the President
their relevance and strength.
Some senators who spoke with PUNCH on Tuesday
said no activity would take place in the upper
chamber again until Jonathan accorded them their
due recognition.
The senators spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“We have made up our minds to paralyse activities
at the senate for now. Our strategy is that we will
resume and adjourn everyday without treating any
serious issue,” a senator from the South-East geo-
political zone, said.
Another senator from the South-South vowed that
the only legislative business that would attract their
participation for now would be strictly on issues
against President Jonathan’s interest.
The senator said, “Every PDP senator is dissatisfied
with the attitude of Mr. President who now believes
that the state governors are more superior to the
senators. We will continue to shun plenary until he
(Jonathan) do the right thing.
“We will be in sympathy with the Speaker of the
House of Reps [Aminu Tambuwal], and if the special
grace which the president extended to the governors
to choose their successors was not extended to the
senators, we will commence an impeachment
proceedings against him.
“I can assure you that we will not sit in the chamber
again. We won’t touch the 2015 budget whenever it
is sent. We will, however, be willing to participate in
reviving anything that we had already suppressed in
the past to favour Jonathan.
“As I am talking to you all the PDP senators are on
their own. None of us is sure of returning to the
senate because the President has given the
governors the go-ahead to anoint those who would
get the tickets for the National and states Houses of
Assembly seats.”
A female senator said, “There are a couple of
governors who want to come to the senate. They
don’t want to come here and discover that the
current senators from their states are their bosses.” www.dailynigeriainfo.com/pdp-senators-adjourn-abruptly-threaten-to-impeach-jonathan/

Impeach Jonathan.
Ha I laugh.
That's just too impossible, only God can impeach Jonathan

Good move and long overdue!

hmph......another Season Drama

The only permanent thing in politics is self interest. They all pretended to be having it all smooth in the red chamber, now thier interest are been rocked by Jonathan. This is rather unfortunate, most PDP Governors who have served out their two terms are now seeking the Senators seat, who would'nt shout. Its like telling a kid to throw out a piece of suya he is busy chewing and savouring its taste. Indeed the various primary elections of pdp around these States will draw a lot of bad blood.