Impeachment plot against Jonathan uncovered

Date: 20-06-2011 5:46 am (13 years ago) | Author: Peter Izu
- at 20-06-2011 05:46 AM (13 years ago)
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MAJOR opposition parties in the country are said to be hatching an impeachment plot against President Goodluck Jonathan if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insists on removing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, from office over the zoning controversy.
Sources at a meeting of leaders of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Abuja that was held on June 14, told the Nigerian Tribune that the opposition parties had resolved to back Tambuwal as Speaker, notwithstanding the thinking within the PDP.
The meeting, which was attended by seven top members of the party, was said to have been briefed by a close ally of the party’s presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who stated that the leadership of the CPC, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) had agreed to defend Tambuwal and use opposition to him as a launch pad of an impeachment plot against the president.
The CPC leaders said at the June 14 meeting that they had directed members of the party in the National Assembly to team up with other opposition parties to seek the impeachment of President Jonathan if the PDP insists on removing Tambuwal.
A source close to the meeting said: “The CPC resolved that should the PDP and the Presidency insist on removing Tambuwal from Office as Speaker using the instrumentality of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), opposition political parties, including the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the CPC, have all agreed that their elected National Assembly members should threaten to impeach Mr President, in order to keep him off-balance. It is when there is stability, that his mind would be on removing Tambuwal.”
One of the leaders of the CPC also told the meeting that some groups and individuals had promised to provide “hard, irrefutable evidences of impeachment,” to be used against President Jonathan and that such evidence could actually lead to his eventual impeachment.


Posted: at 20-06-2011 05:46 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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