SENATOR Uche Chukwumerijie has denied the existence of any plot led by him to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan over the non-implementation of the recommendations of the Senate Committee on Privatisation.
The Abia
State senator was forced to issue a rebuttal in Abuja on Sunday following
reports which emerged in the media linking him to a move to impeach the
president.
He said
in a statement personally signed by him and made available to the Nigerian
Tribune that "the press reports that I was leading a move to impeach
President Jonathan are untrue and a gross misrepresentation of aspects of my
brief speech in the Senate last Thursday."
Explaining
what took place on the floor of the Senate that was misconstrued, he said: “My
speech referred to mobilisation of colleagues to co-sponsor a motion urging
early implementation of the recommendations of the Senate Committee on
Privatisation.
“This is
a routine Senate procedure for a motion that should carry the full weight of
the chambers. The delay in implementing the Ahmed Lawan Privatisation Report,
which exposed in clinical details, the massive siphoning of public funds to
private hands, demands such a robust remedial action. This move is certainly
not a mobilisation for impeachment.
“The
mention of impeachment at the tail end of the speech is a reminder of the
ultimate weapon of Parliament sign-posting, like a sword of Damocles, the
distant reaches of elastic public goodwill. It is definitely not a move,
immediate or long-term, against Jonathan’s regime,” he said.
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