Two lawmakers, Senator Alkali Jajere and Senator Ayogu Eze clashed on Tuesday over alleged move to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.
While Jajere who represents Yobe South Senatorial District told reporters in Abuja that Jonathan would be served impeachment notice on December 16 when the Senate resumes plenary, Eze who represents Enugu North Senatorial District insisted that Jajere should wake up from day dreaming.
Also Senator Sahaabi Yau (Zamfara North) warned that the Senate could ill afford the distraction associated with the impeachment process.
Jajere said he is one of the Senators that had endorsed the impeachment notice.
He spoke after the adjournment of Senate plenary till December 16 to allow Senators to participate in their party screening and primary elections.
The Yobe State lawmaker said that he is the fourth on the list of 63 Senators that signed the impeachment notice last week, while two others have signified interest to sign.
He said, “I have signed the impeachment notice because there are impeachable offences against President Goodluck Jonathan.
“You are my colleagues and being a journalist who had practised journalism for 27 years, I know these things are not new.
“In 2011, this Senate approved N240billion as subsidy fund but the same government spent N1.7trillion which is a clear breach of the constitution, clear breach of the appropriation act.
“The business of government is to curtail excesses but this government has shown that it is incurably deficient in handling the situations in this country.
“That government cannot say it wants to continue. The President should have even resigned without waiting for him to be impeached.
“The duty of the legislature is to act as a check and balance because it is the most important symbol of democracy.
“If you don’t have the legislature, you don’t have democracy because every other arms of government exist even when there is no democracy. It is only the legislature that makes a democracy, a government.
“As at last week, 63 of us have signed up for the impeachment, my signature was the fourth, but I can confirm to you that we have 63 signatures but after the session today (yesterday), two people had called me and told me that they want to sign.”
But Eze insisted that there was no impeachment notice in the Senate.
The Enugu North lawmaker noted that impeachment of Jonathan was only in the imagination of those who were spreading the story.
Eze said, “There is no impeachment notice in the Senate.
“It is in the imagination of those who are writing about it and we challenge anybody who thinks that he can impeach the President to meet us on the floor.”
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