Senator representing Kaduna Central in the upper
chamber of the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has given reasons why he and his
colleagues in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) backed out of the plot
to remove the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
He said the reason was because "it is
constitutional and an impossible feat to fulfill given the number of loyal
members of the Senate.
The outspoken Senator, who recently dumped the APC
for Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), also said the ruling party has run out of
number to carry out the removal plan.
Speaking in an interview with journalists on Sunday
in Abuja, Sani, who is now seeking re-election on the platform of PRP, said the
opposition party which Saraki belongs to now is more united than the ruling APC
senators in the National Assembly.
"It is technically impossible to remove Saraki
because the APC does not have two thirds majority in the National Assembly.
Secondly, Saraki has been able to carry everybody along and provide a
leadership to the extent that he is able to accommodate those who are critical
of him.
"Thirdly, the opposition is more united and
more formidable in their resolve to keep the Senate president than the ruling
party in their plot to remove him,” the lawmaker said.
Senator Sani stated that added to the constitutional
and numerical constraints, members of the ruling party were not united in the
cause of removing Saraki.
"So, I can tell you that removing the Senate president
through constitutional means is very much impossible because the APC is not
united to do that. The APC does not have the number to do that, and it does not
have the kind of support it needed to be able to carry out the plot.
"I can tell that APC backed out from the plot to remove
Saraki because they don't have the number to do that and it is impossible to do
that through constitutional means," he stated.
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