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…As many APC Senators decamp to join opposition in ‘Buhari Must Go’ campaign
–Pix (above, L-R): PMB and Lawan
The list of additional indignant Senators verily angry against the Senate President Ahmad Lawan for standing against the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari has surfaced, with all of them already planning to dump or have dumped the ruling APC to join forces with the opposition.
Their first step, it was gathered, was to urgently remove Lawan to pave the way for the ‘Buhari Must Go’ campaign, predicated on the president’s seeming inability to guarantee security in the country.
Only recently, the insecurity became so alarming that the terrorists even threatened, in a video post, of their preparedness to kidnap Buhari himself Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai as well as other political bigwigs.
This was after an earlier physical attack on the president’s convoy in which a senior police officer and his colleague were brutally killed, and lately, the ambush on the Presidential Guard in Bwari downtown of Abuja…in addition to several other security breaches around the country, precipitating tears and blood.
The list of the decamping APC senators, who it was yet unclear if they have written to the Senate President to notify him of their plan can be found below. But one thing is clear; they have all joined the opposition party in their bid to force out Lawan to pave the way for President Buhari’s immediate impeachment.
These include:
- Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, (APC -Bauchi North)
- Senator Isah Hamma Misau – (APC, Bauchi Central)
- Senator Ladi Dadu’ut, (APC, Plateau South)
- Senator Bello Mandiya, (APC, Katsina South)
- Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, (APC, Kwara Central)
- Senator Danladi Sankara, (APC, Jigawa West)
- Senator Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi, (APC, Niger North)
- Senator Smart Adeyemi, (APC, Kogi West)
- Senator Yakubu Oseni, (APC, Kogi Central)
- Senator Haliru Dauda (APC, Bauchi Central)
- Others….
Although the APC currently enjoys the majority in the Senate with 61 senators, 12 of its members as well as other opposition from All Progressives Grand Alliance – 1, New Nigeria Peoples Party -2, Young Progressives Party – 1 and Labour Party – 1, joining forces with major opposition PDP, is expected to beef up the needed number to achieve their aim.
The minority parties in the Senate are presently five in number as at the last defection in the Upper Chamber on June 22, 2022. The list consists of PDP, YPP, APGA, NNPP and LP.
Already, there are three APC vacant seats created by the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu (APC – Nasarawa West), Abubakar Kyari (APC – Borno North), elected Deputy National Chairman of the APC (North) in the last national convention, and Mohammed Hassan, who was appointed Zamfara State Deputy Governor.
So far, the Senate is expected to boil after its members return to plenary in September, having embarked on break for the meantime.
As Nigerians watch the emerging melodrama, one question on the lips of political pundits is, ‘will the opposition succeed? Will it not? Will it all end in farce as usual with previous developments? Only time shall tell./SHARE THIS