There
were indications on Tuesday that members of the House of
Representatives were divided over the threat to impeach President
Goodluck.
The division in the House, particularly
among the Peoples Democratic Party’s lawmakers, came to the fore on
Tuesday when the Chairman of the Committee on Capital Market, Mr.
Ibrahim El-Sudi, said that the threat was the handiwork of the
opposition in the lower chamber of the National Assembly.
But the House spokesman, Mr. Zakari
Mohammed, in an interview with one of our correspondents, faulted
El-Sudi, saying he was merely expressing his personal opinion.
The lawmakers had on Thursday accused
the President of breaching the 2012 Appropriation Act and poorly
executing the budget. They also adopted a motion giving Jonathan up to
September to achieve “100 per cent execution” of the budget or face
impeachment proceedings.
The motion was endorsed by all members of the House.
El-Sudi however on Tuesday, on Sunrise
Daily, a live breakfast programme of a private television, Channels TV,
gave an impression that the decision was the idea of members of the
opposition in the House.
When one of the television presenters
sought to know from El-Sudi why the PDP-dominated House was issuing an
impeachment threat against the President, the lawmaker said the threat
came from members of the opposition.
He added that contrary to the
widely-publicised reports of the impeachment threat, the House of
Representatives had not taken any decision on what would happen by
September.
El-Sudi said, “It (the impeachment
threat) came from members of the opposition and they are entitled to
their opinion. It was not a resolution of the House.
PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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