Last week, the House of Representatives commenced collecting signatures for the president’s ouster with about 200 members already in support, according Minority Whip Samson Osagie.
The senators, according to sources, were also angered by last week’s invasion of the National Assembly by security agencies where they teargased the Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and other lawmakers.
A senator who spoke to Daily Trust yesterday said already “more than 20 of us have signed the motion and we are edging closer to getting 2/3.”
Daily Trust gathered that the impeachment notice is being collated by a senator from one of the states of the South West geo-political zone.
“We are determined to take it to whatever level because things cannot continue like this,” he said.
Based on provisions of the 1999 Constitution, 1/3 of Senators must append their signatures to the motion before the president can be served the impeachment notice.
Consequently, 36 of the 109 members are required to activate the process of impeachment in the Senate, our correspondent reports.
Source: Daily Trust
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