Sunday, April 11, 2010
Members of the National Interest Group (NIG) in the Senate and the Nigeria First Forum (NFF) in the House of Representatives have resolved to commence impeachment process against President Umaru Yar’Adua if he fails to resign within three weeks. This indication emerged as the lawmakers begin the search for a new Vice President from the North.
The twin moves are reportedly in response to emerging details on the state of health of the President, following the recent visit to the ailing leader by some Muslim and Christian clerics in the country. The two groups, at a meeting that extended from last Thursday night to early Friday, resolved to commence Yar’Adua’s impeachment in the next three weeks except the newly constituted Executive Council of the Federation invokes Section 144 to declare the President incapacitated.
The NIG, whose chairman, Senator Bala Mohammed, has been appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, spearheaded the adoption of the Doctrine of Necessity that paved the way for the Senate to empower Dr Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.
A source at the meeting informed Sunday Sun that although they deliberated on the state of affairs since Jonathan assumed office as Acting President, they was no agreement on which of the three geo-political zones in the North would produce the Vice President. But our correspondent authoritatively gathered that majority of the Senators were against a candidate emerging from the North East as the zone had already enjoyed two terms that was utilized by former Vice President
This position was said to have knocked off the lobby of Senators from the zone who wanted the group to give due consideration to the candidature of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed.
But lawmakers from the North West zone however insisted that they would support Yar’Adua’s impeachment if the Vice President’s slot is allotted to the zone as a compensation for losing the exalted position of President.
Sunday Sun further gathered that the North West legislators declared at the meeting that since it was clear that the zone had lost the position of head of government, it would be better if the number two position was conceded to the zone and that it would be an advantage to produce an active Vice President than a President that they cannot see to make any demand. Consequently, Senators from both the North Central and North West have penciled some of their preferred candidates to be presented at a meeting with the national leadership of the
It was gathered that the legislators noted that while it is constitutionally right for a sitting President to pick his deputy, the NIG Senators said that since they equally have a role to play in the confirmation of such a candidate as well as given the role they played even at the risk of their political career to get the Acting President take over the reins of government, it would not be asking for too much to concede the position of Vice President to one of them.
The meeting was said to have resolved that members of the NIG, which currently controls more than two-thirds majority in the Senate, would only agree to commence the process of Yar’Adua’s removal only if they got a firm commitment from the PDP leadership that a Senator emerges as the next Vice President since the governors have had their share of the number one and two seats in the country.
Accordingly, Senators from the North Central zone short-listed Senate President, David Mark, Smart Adeyemi, Zainab Kure and Gbemi Saraki while the North West went for two serving governors namely,
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