Forty-nine senators
have written Senate President Bukola Saraki expressing their support to his
leadership as the Number 3 citizen.
The 49 senators who
are members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had last week
signed a document passing a vote of confidence on the Senate President.
Their last week’s
action came immediately after the siege laid on the National Assembly by men
of the Department of State Security (DSS).
As a follow up to
their action, the 49 senators wrote a letter to Saraki, assuring him that no
impeachment against him would succeed since the remaining senators, 60, do not
form the two-thirds constitutional requirement to remove him.
Saraki’s Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity Yusuph Olaniyonu confirmed the development to
Daily Trust on telephone yesterday, but could not give details of the letter.
Our correspondent
reports that there are currently 54 APC senators, and 49 PDP senators. There
are other two; one each from the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) and
the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
There are two vacant
seats from Katsina and Bauchi states, which had been won by APC candidates in
the Saturday’s by-elections conducted in the two states, but the winners are
yet to be sworn in in due course.
It would also be
recalled that one APC senator from Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, was recently
sentenced to prison. Although he was said to have appealed the judgment, he has
been out of the Senate ever since.
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