Abuja: Two lawmakers, Senator Alkali Jajere
and Senator Ayogu Eze clashed on
Tuesday over alleged move to
impeach President Goodluck
Jonathan. While Jajere who represents Yobe
South Senatorial District told reporters
in Abuja that Jonathan would be
served impeachment notice on
December 16 when the Senate
resumes plenary, Eze who represents Enugu North Senatorial District insisted
that Jajere should wake up from day
dreaming. Also Senator Sahaabi Yau (Zamfara
North) warned that the Senate could ill
afford the distraction associated with
the impeachment process. Jajere said he is one of the Senators
that had endorsed the impeachment
notice. He spoke after the adjournment of
Senate plenary till December 16 to
allow Senators to participate in their
party screening and primary elections. The Yobe State lawmaker said that he
is the fourth on the list of 63 Senators
that signed the impeachment notice
last week, while two others have
signified interest to sign. He said, “I have signed the
impeachment notice because there are
impeachable offences against
President Goodluck Jonathan. “You are my colleagues and being a
journalist who had practised
journalism for 27 years, I know these
things are not new. “In 2011, this Senate approved
N240billion as subsidy fund but the
same government spent N1.7trillion
which is a clear breach of the
constitution, clear breach of the
appropriation act. “The business of government is to
curtail excesses but this government
has shown that it is incurably deficient
in handling the situations in this
country. “That government cannot say it wants
to continue. The President should
have even resigned without waiting
for him to be impeached. “The duty of the legislature is to act as
a check and balance because it is the
most important symbol of democracy. “If you don’t have the legislature, you
don’t have democracy because every
other arms of government exist even
when there is no democracy. It is only
the legislature that makes a
democracy, a government. “As at last week, 63 of us have signed
up for the impeachment, my signature
was the fourth, but I can confirm to
you that we have 63 signatures but
after the session today (yesterday),
two people had called me and told me that they want to sign.” But Eze insisted that there was no
impeachment notice in the Senate. The Enugu North lawmaker noted that
impeachment of Jonathan was only in
the imagination of those who were
spreading the story. Eze said, “There is no impeachment
notice in the Senate. “It is in the imagination of those who
are writing about it and we challenge
anybody who thinks that he can
impeach the President to meet us on
the floor.”
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Lets get to the floor.

one is on the president pay roll
while the other is advocating for change