Plot to Impeach Jonathan Gathers Momentum, As Opposition Governors Mobilise

As part of a pre-emptive measure to checkmate the plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to declare the seat of five governors who recently decamped from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors in the opposition which include Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano and Kwara Deputy Governor, Elder Peter Kisra have begun moves to mobilise support for the call to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.

To this end, a meeting of a section of the governors was held at the Kano state Governor’s Lodge yesterday to ‘appraise the political situation was said to have held late yesterday in Abuja.

A source close to the meeting told said the APC governors’ move came as it became imperative that the ruling party was poised to removing the G-5 governors through the courts.“There is no way we will take PDP’s legal action lightly because we have witnessed series of illegalities that the party had perpetuated in this country.“If you recall, the PDP swiftly moved against Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and removed him from office even when he was on appeal against a judgment that sacked him”, he said.

While the meeting of the governors where ongoing, some APC national leaders-former head of state, General Mohammadu Buhari, former Lagos state governor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state, the party’s interim national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, among others were also said to have met in the nation’s capital.  A source said the leaders were meeting to prepare grounds for a meeting of the party’s national executive council committee (NEC) scheduled for today.

It was gathered that the meeting resolved that the party should mobilise to take advantage of its seeming majority in the National Assembly and checkmate the PDP headlong.

It was further gathered that the APC’s measure, meant to go on simultaneously with the PDP’s legal action against the G-5 governors is to ‘mobilise members of the National Assembly, especially as the party (APC) appears set to displace the PDP in the power balance, particularly in the House of Representatives.’“Let them go ahead with their legal action; we shall also use our new power balance in our favour at the level of the House of Representatives to ensure we commence the process to remove the president from office,” the source further hinted.

The PDP had last week, dragged the defected governors of the party to a Federal High Court in Abuja asking the court to declare the governors’ seats vacant after they made real their threat to join the APC.The governors are: Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara).

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