Tuesday, August 14, 2018, will be the day when the National Assembly will reconvene after it went for a recess on July 24, 2018, to consider the 2019 election budget which is an issue of national interest.

No doubt, the issue of who becomes the leader of the Senate will come to play even when that is not the reason for reconvening. A lot of political gymnasium and power tussle is likely to surface on that very day all because of who gets what.

According to the last defection list announced on the floor of the Senate before the house went on recess, it is crystal clear that the APC is in the majority with 53 senators while the main opposition PDP is with 50 senators, 2 ADC senators, 1 APGA senator, 2 vacant seats and 1 party less senator who did not announced his new party after his exit from the APC.

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It is no more a news that the APC leadership has lost their sleep over the plots to impeach the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu.

It is what the APC led federal government perceived to be their right as they claimed it is not morally right for an opposition party to hold the leadership of the Senate when the APC is in the majority.

Away from being the majority, what makes it wrong for a minority party to become the Senate president and deputy? Indeed, the Senate standing rule does not negate a minority party from being the leader of the Senate.

The next question that comes to your mind is, why then the cries and hues that Saraki must go? The answer is not farfetched, it is the dynamics of Nigeria politics and its do-or-die elements.

As a concern Nigerian, we must, however, know that the requirement to impeach a Senate president and his deputy is a two-thirds vote by the members of the Senate which is practically 73 senators are needed to impeach Saraki and his deputy.

At this point in time, do you think Saraki and Ekweremadu can be impeached? Do you think APC will follow due process to impeach Saraki? Do you think the APC will get the numbers of senators’ constitutional needed to impeach them? Do you think the opposition will also fold their arms to allow their man to go?

These are questions hanging in the balance in the minds of many Nigerians, stay tuned as I will proffer answers to those questions in my next epistle coming up tomorrow. May God bless Nigeria


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