san316:
Hmmm! GEJ the Severus Snake. obj trued it and failed, you no near am for scheming .

wwwkaycom:
Members of the National Assembly
have vowed to resist any ploy by
President Goodluck Jonathan to
extend his tenure by six months on
the pretext of insecurity.
There has been speculation since the
February elections were shifted that
the President is on the verge of
sending a tenure extension proposal
to the National Assembly, using the
insecurity in the North-East as an
excuse.
However, senators and members of
the House of Representatives, in
separate interviews with SUNDAY
PUNCH on Friday, said the President
should bury the rumoured plan.
On Tuesday, the spokesman of the
All Progressives Congress in the
Senate, Senator Femi Ojudu, had
alleged at a forum that Jonathan had
tried to get some members of the
National Assembly to elongate his
tenure, but that he had so far met a
brick wall.
He reportedly spoke in Ibadan, Oyo
State at a social discourse organised
by the Afenifere Renewal Group, held
in honour of a former Ekiti State
governor, Kayode Fayemi.
He had said, “President Jonathan has
been begging us to allow him do two
more years but the Yoruba must cry
out and also be strategic in their call
for change.
“We are resuming in the next one
week and the President might likely
bring the proposal for the election to
be postponed for the next six months
or one year.”
But in separate interviews with
SUNDAY PUNCH , lawmakers across
political parties called on President
Jonathan to jettison the idea, if
indeed there was such.
APC caucus leader and minority
leader of the House, Mr. Femi
Gbajabiamila, dismissed the thought
of tenure extension as “baseless and
impossible.”
He told one of our correspondents
that the idea of tenure extension was
strange to him since there were no
grounds for it.
“It will not pass; there will be no
support for it. There is no point
wasting time and energy on that
issue,” he said.
The Deputy House Majority Leader,
Mr. Leo Ogor, also argued that,
tenure extension would not get
popular support, and that Jonathan
did not have such a plan.
The lawmaker from Delta State added,
“Mr. President is running a campaign
for his election. What does he need
tenure extension for? Is he afraid of
elections like the APC, who know
they will lose?”
Another lawmaker from Plateau State,
Mr. Bitrus Kaze, said members would
oppose a tenure extension proposal
because the mood of the nation was
not prepared for it.
Kaze said, “The mood in the House
of Representatives and even the
nation right now will not support
tenure extension; it will not fly.”
Similarly, a member of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance from Imo
State, Mr. Eddie Mbadiwe, said any
plan to extend the elections by six
months would be dead on arrival.
“Nobody will table such a proposal
and even if it comes, it will not pass.
There is no way anybody will
contemplate tenure extension,” he
added.
On his part, the Chairman, Senate
Committee on National Planning,
Senator Barnabas Gemade (APC,
Benue North East ), said, “As a
democrat who has been the National
Chairman of two major political
parties in this country in the past, I
can never support such an
undemocratic arrangement few weeks
to a general election that we have
been preparing for as a nation for
about four years.”
Also, the Chairman, Senate
Committee on Ethics and Privileges,
Senator Ayo Akinyelure, (PDP Ondo
Central) described the alleged tenure
elongation plot as “a fallacy, cheap
blackmail and an unwarranted
allegation to heat up the polity”
Akinyelure said, “Nobody would bring
such bill to the National Assembly
except if the person is an enemy of
democracy.”
A senator from the South West geo-
political zone told one of our
correspondents in confidence that
the plot was real because there were
moves by some members of the red
chamber to sell the idea to their
colleagues before the current break.
He said, “I can confirm to you that
the idea of tenure elongation was
sold to some of us before we went
on break.”
Other senators who corroborated this
view, also on conditions of
anonymity, noted the idea might
come up when the chambers resume
on Tuesday.
One of them said, “The real reasons
why the election was shifted by six
weeks was probably to perfect the
tenure elongation saga by using the
National Assembly members who
would resume next week Tuesday, to
execute the plot.”
The senators, however, vowed to
resist any attempt to extend the
tenure of the current administration
beyond the May 29 handover date.
When contacted, the Chairman,
Senate Committee on Information,
Media and Public Affairs, Senator
Eyinnaya Abaribe, said it was not true
that the President planned to use the
Senate to extend his tenure.
Efforts made to get the reaction of the
Peoples Democratic Party were not
successful. Calls made to its National
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh,
indicated that his telephone line was
switched off.
Also, the call made to the party’s
Director of Media and Publicity, Mr.
Olisa Metuh did not connect.
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