Tag: impeachment
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PDP senators ‘keeping vigil at National Assembly over Saraki, Ekweremadu’
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators are taking turns to sleep over at the National Assembly Complex to prevent a removal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by their All Progressives Congress (APC) colleagues, a senator said yesterday. Senator Philip Gyunka (PDP Nasarawa North) spoke in Lafia, the state capital, yesterday when he presented his letter of…
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Impeachment: Saraki only postponing his doomsday – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has uncovered sinister plans by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to attack its Senators, even as the party says Senate President Bukola Saraki and his cohorts are only postponing doomsday by not reconvening. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports APC Ag. National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena, in a statement on…
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Saraki challenges APC’s impeachment threats in court
…asks court to restrain AGF, IG, others from ‘unlawfully’ removing him The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to among others, restrain the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Department of State Services (DSS) from supporting any effort to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki through…
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Buhari’s impeachment will not be entertained – Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki has said moves to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari would not be entertained. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Saraki stated this while fielding questions during a world press conference he addressed in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Bamikole Banks Omisore, Special Assistant, International Relations to the Senate President, who highlighted the point, “focus is…
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Video: Oshiomhole collecting signatures for Saraki’s impeachment, Sen. Melaye alleges
https://t.co/jnp4soFGpu — The Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) August 7, 2018
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Police unlock impeached Imo Deputy Governor’s office
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Thursday unlocked the office of the impeached Deputy Governor of Imo State, Eze Madumere. Recall that the office was locked on Wednesday, few hours after the state assembly lawmakers impeached the deputy governor. This is to forestall the breakdown of law and order in the state. A journalist…
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Benue crisis: Court stops Ortom’s impeachment
A Makurdi High Court on Wednesday restrained the eight members of the Benue State Assembly from proceeding with the impeachment process initiated against Governor Samuel Ortom. The court also restrained the affected lawmakers from sitting and upheld their suspension pending the determination of the Motion on Notice. Eight members of the state Assembly led by…
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2019: Ganduje’s deputy petitions police over alleged threat to life, impeachment
The Deputy Governor of Kano State, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar has petitioned the State Security Service and other security agents over alleged threats to his life and plots to remove him from office. Recall that Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Yusuf Abdullahi Atta was earlier impeached on Monday. In the petition, addressed to…
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Ganduje reacts to Kano Assembly Speaker’s impeachment
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said on Monday that he had no knowledge of what happened at the state’s assembly. Ganduje who described the episode as an internal democracy said that, such development is good for any progressive democracy. The Governor made the assertion at the Kano State Government House when the new speaker,…
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Benue crisis: Saraki, Dogara speak on impeachment plot against Ortom
…ask president to call police to order Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara have described as ” a desecration of the legislative sanctity”, the on-going situation in Benue State in which eight out of the 30 members of the State House of Assembly have commenced impeachment…