A member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, says his party is ready to resist any attempt by the All Progressives Congress, to impeach the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
Nwaoboshi, who represents Delta North in the Senate, was quoted by Vanguard newspapers on Tuesday, June 16, as saying that Ekweremadu’s seat can’t be declared vacant.
The Senator, who was a former chairman of Delta State chapter of PDP, was reacting to the statement of former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
He said: “It is an insult for Kwankwaso to make such annoying statement because he became a governor of Kano on the platform of PDP. He (Kwankwaso) is an ingrate, who enjoyed a lot of patronage including that of NDDC under the PDP platform.”
“He should leave Saraki, Ekweremadu alone; in short it was his (Kwankwaso) ambition to become the President of the country that made him to leave PDP for APC and failed woefully to achieve that ambition. Now that he is eyeing to become president in 2019, he is ranting. He was in the hall on our inauguration even though he did not vote.”
“If he is aggrieved, including those APC senators, they should know the proper thing to do. They should initiate impeachment proceeding and not on the pages of newspapers. Let me tell you we, the PDP senators, are waiting for them. They don’t have the number, they don’t have the capacity to impeach.”
“It is quite unfortunate that he is speaking like that. I can recall that I was one of those that went to Kano to conduct the State executive election that brought him there. He betrayed PDP because he wanted to be President and has no right to castigate PDP over the Ekweramdu’s seat.”
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