Even the 2/3 of plenary the APC will not see.Their majority us even very thin. Even if 10 PDP senators are absent at plenary, they still will not be able to secure 2/3 majority of that sitting. There are only noise makers and empty chest beaters

CapitalCee:


There is nothing Unique about Kwara, same way Saraki controls kwara, thats how Oshiomole controls Edo which is bigger and have many heavy wieghts. Saraki inherited his structure from his father, Oshiomole biult his own from the scratch as a common man. Saraki has brought too much attention to himself, APC will not let go free. Bookmark this post. He has scores to settle with Tinubu, Akpabio and now Oshiomhole. Saraki will not produce the next governor of kwara state.

Oshiomhole built which structures? How many senators or Federal House of reps members in Edo State did oshiomhole deliver to APC in 2015? What about the presidential elections? Did he deliver it to the APC? Oshiomhole only rode to power on the strength of his popularity as a former labour chairman.

Oshiomhole is no match for Saraki anyday or anytime. Saraki has always bested his opponents even with their so-called federal might.Just sit and watch as the APC will be disgraced in kwara state

FOLYKAZE:
Oga Saraki reconvene the House make we know who be chicken and who be bird.

As the rain pours, we spectators will know that which will fly and that which will be drenched like a witch

The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday. Come and impeach your grandfather let's see

deomelo:
Here is deal and the reason why Saraki cannot win this battle.



1. APC is totally in control at the federal and state level all over Nigeria including Kwara state, but Saraki is not in control of any state, not even his own state and constituency.


2. Impeaching Saraki is just one of the many options APC's pocket, the most potent option is not impeachment, it's denying him the return ticket to Abuja via election loss in his own state, the state with dismantled structure that he no longer control.

Denying him the capacity to return to Abuja as a senator in the first place looks like the most potent and humiliating option in my view.

3. The PDP can not save or shield saraki or prevent his eventual downfall, in fact, he fell the very second he betrayed and sabotaged his own party and country because of greed and personal gains.

4. The PDP is a very weak party and they've already lost the election. The SE and SS, their main pillar of support are crumbling with APC looming large and taking over in both zones. The North and the SW are solidly APC so there's absolute no electoral rout for the PDP to navigate to Aso Rock.

4. The PDP members he covered himself with are not returning to Abuja in 2019 via any electoral victory so Saraki is totally exposed, vulnerable and disposable.

Sabotaging your own party and country is the most dishonorable move ever and I don't see Saraki getting any kind of soft landing from here on.

You reason like ac16 year old kid.Now read up what you just spewed.Does it make any sense to you?

krendo:


My dear if you even succeed with this on the Monday the reverse will happen immediately on Tuesday

Nobody will go to court for you

You think you have absolute control of the security forces but you forgot that while you have been in power for 3.5 years, PDP has been there for 16years

If you want to invite Anarchy Goodluck with that but it may not necessarily go your way!

Don't mind the idiots.No one will go to any court. Any illegal impeachment won't stand, Saraki will remain Senate president and they will be the ones to go to court

FOLYKAZE:


APC should go ahead if they have the ⅔ of the senate sitting in the plenary on that day. The court will sort the rest. Goodnight

Well the APC will never have 2/3 of sitting of any plenary. You idiots has already made your plots public.

Racoon:
Oshiomole failed to understand that even the APC senators fully know the legal cost & implication of any attempt to impeach Saraki outside the senate rule & Nigerian constitution hence their lack of will power to carry out the act.
Oshiomole thinks politics @ this national level is played by his toutish, bullying & forceful labour days or the present bull-in-a-China-shop attitude as APC party chair.

That man is a very big ode. He is yet to understand how national politics is played.APC majority at the moment is even very thin and not overwhelming

Chai see confusion lol where they not all in PDP before? How can one defect from APC to APC

tesppidd:
But having said that,

Buhari is slow sha

That's one difference between him and OBJ

OBJ is mean and cold


A man like OBJ would have capitalized on this lacuna

Impeached Saraki with 25 members and damned the consequences

Another senate would be inaugurated by june before the court cases would be decided.

But OBJ in all his gragra could not impeach Naaba.That guy showed him hell

I just hope the ugly baboon faced midget will not commit suicide over this Saraki matter

Bloody illiterate. You think you are in your Father's house where you issue orders. You didn't learn anything from what Ngige taught you few weeks ago

Bloody illiterate!!! We know you were behind the failed DSS coup.Come and impeach your grandfather let's see

Butterflyleo:


Why are you so confused?

Many of you are a disgrace to education.

We try to explain it to you and you still refuse to learn.

The total number of the senators are 109

Half of that number is roughly 54

A simple majority means 54 or above. Say 55 , 56, 57 senators present .

That number becomes the simple majority of the members of the house present. The constitution does not say 2/3 OF ALL the members of the house and neither does it say 2/3 OF THE ENTIRE members of the house.

That simple majority forms a quorum because it is already above 1/3 of the total membership of the house and they then effect his impeachment with the votes of 2/3 of the simple majority present.

This isn't hard to understand so just in case you are still struggling to understand what I just typed, then read it again.

That is sagays comment I just explained and broke down here for you now.

You are the grossly uneducated one here. 2/3 majority does not mean 2/3 of the majority. Simple English una no sabi

Melonny:
To deliberate issues in the National Assembly, it needs quorum that one- thirds of the house. I/3 are the house. So, 2/3 of that house can impeach.

Even 2/3 of the quorum una no go see

Butterflyleo:


Many of you are a disgrace to education.

We try to explain it to you and you still refuse to learn.

The total number of the senators are 109

Half of that number is roughly 54

A simple majority means 54 or above. Say 55 , 56, 57 senators present .

That number becomes the simple majority of the members of the house. The constitution does not say 2/3 OF ALL the members of the house and neither does it say 2/3 OF THE ENTIRE members of the house.

That simple majority forms a quorum because it is already above 1/3 of the total membership of the house and they then effect his impeachment with the votes of 2/3 of the simple majority present.

This isn't hard to understand so just in case you are still struggling to understand what I just typed, then read it again.

Bros enough of the interpretation. Go and impeach him already. Keypad warrior

mrvitalis:


If buhari wanted to impeach him the way the media paints it... Saraki would have been forgotten right now

It's super easy to impeach a senate president

Obj tenure should tell you that

OBJ did not impeach any Senate president with less 2/3.PDP had enough majority to do whatever they wanted

mrvitalis:

Was that not what I said?

But the constitution says you just need 2/3 to impeach the Senate president

But for the president you need to pass through processes.... Chief judge set up committe and all that

I don't know if you even understand with i right

But your moronic prof says he doesn't need 2/3 of the house to impeach Saraki. If you bypass the law to kill me,I will do the same for you. None of the divides has enough Numbers to impeach the other

Butterflo enough of the noise making.Even the 2/3 of members present una no go see.

Butterflyleo:


You are clearly ignorant of the constitution.

Mr oversabi when are you impeaching the Senate president? I will laugh the hell out of you when the Senate reconvenes on Tuesday without impeaching the Senate president

Butterflyleo:


They don't because they are the minority.

2/3 MAJORITY means those present must be more than half the full number of membership in the house.

Plus the process for impeaching the president is totally different from that of the senate president

Shebi its Tuesday. I go laugh you tire.Nobi by noise on nairaland.

mrvitalis:

Do you know what is quorum of a house?

That's the minimum number needed to take a binding decision and that's 1/3 of total house members

Now if you have 1/3 of the house you can initiate an impeachment for the president and the Senate president.... But the difference is is that the Senate president can be impeached in 15 mins

While the president would need a month minimum so if you can keep all apc senators out for a month sure... You only need about 45 senators to impeach buhari

But if you can keep all pdp senators out for 30 mins you can impeach the Senate president

Now my friend is the difference

Lol so once it comes to the impeachment of the president you want us to follow the constitution but for the Senate president you want to bypass the constitution. If 1/3 impeach Saraki then 1/3 will also impeach Buhari

NgeneUkwenu:


First, he was selected by "Voice vote" of some members present?

Second, he was selected by the members present.

And he will be removed by through the same process.

Empty barrels make the loudest noise.Impeachment na by mouth lol

Butterflyleo:


Every senator is a member of the house and that brings ambiguity to that portion of the law.

As long as all present are senators who by title are members of the house then a full house is not needed.

All that is needed would be the 1/3 of the simple majority of the.members of the house present to form a quorum and 2/3 of the simple majority of the members of the house present to effect an impeachment

That portion of the constitution is explicit. 2/3 members of the entire house

NgeneUkwenu:


What did the constitution say about the election of the Senate President? Is simple majority of the members present or Simple majority of the entire Senate members?

Saraki was elected by simple majority of the entire members of the Senate.57 senators are more than half the entire 109 senators

FOLYKAZE:


Bros this is is the part where we disagree by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of that House.

The emboldened is from the law you quoted. If Lawal was to mean business like I assumed, he will proceed on the impeachment process and let the court what the law mean by "two-thirds majority of the members of that house. Court will explain if that clause mean the ⅔ of the 109 members or ⅔ of the ⅓ sitted. By then he would have gone and the legal battle can go on.

Lol Who will go? You never learn anything

NgeneUkwenu:


Okadigbo during his time, duly adjourned the Senate after the plenary. But some senators against him reconvened immediately and impeached him.

So I insist, it is not difficult to impeach Saraki now.

You are blatant liar. Okadigbo stepped down and a Senate president pro tempore was appointed who adjudicated over the allegations against him before he was indicted and duly impeached. PDP had overwhelming majority of over 80 senators and could easily get whatever they wanted

hapter V
The Legislature

Part I

National Assembly

A - Composition and Staff of National Assembly

47. There shall be a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
48. The Senate shall consist of three Senators from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
49. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall consist of three hundred and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall fall within more than one State.
50. (1) There shall be:-

(a) a President and a Deputy President of the Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves; and
(b) a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves.

(2) The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate his office -

(a) if he ceases to be a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, otherwise than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives; or
(b) when the House of which he was a member first sits after any dissolution of that House; or
(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of

Shebi the Senate will reconvene on Tuesday? Go and impeach him lets see

buhariguy:
The jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra terrorist party PDP senators can not read.

The constitution says 2/3 available, not the total Senate but the available ones at that meeting.

Oya go and hold a village meeting in your village and remove him by 2/3 of those present!!!

Fake news alert

Mynd44:
This is interesting.

Mynd44 the anti-kwaraption fighter actually thinks its interesting for Buhari to bribe senators with $30m to impeach Saraki SMH!!!

Sorry to burst your bubble dude.

First there is no how this huge amount of money could be deployed. The Senate is not reconvening tomorrow so this is balderdash. The fact that you even gave credibility to this piece of thrash makes me to question your intellectual level!!! I know you want Saraki out so badly but do you have to resort to such levels of desperation? Gosh!!!

Oblang:


Just like the senate can veto the president on bill passing, 1/3 of the senate is what is needed to reconvene with or without the senate president...

Only the Senate president or his deputy can reconvene the Senate and not any 1/3.If it is 1/3 they need to reconvene the Senate how come it has not been reconvened?