PDP reaches out to Tambuwal over impeachment threat
By Busolami Idowu
Leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are reaching out to the House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal over New PDP members threat to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.
NigerianEcho learnt that Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has scheduled a meeting with the Speaker who was seen as a “rebel” by the party hierarchy because of his romance with members of the opposition. The meeting, according to a source, comes on the heels of the failure of the desperate appeal by the PDP leadership to persuade the Speaker to postpone the resumption date of the members from the annual recess which terminates tomorrow.
Sources close to Tambuwal said he was opposed to the initial plan of presenting the newly elected NWC members to himself alone, and in the alternative offered a broader participation that would include other members of the PDP Caucus. “The Speaker was being careful considering the tension over the fractionalisation of the PDP with the new faction attacking the old faction. If he agrees to meet with the NWC members alone, that would have put him squarely in the camp of the PDP with the attendance consequences from the new PDP members who have been screaming for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan and a clean break from the Bamangar Tukur- led Party.
There were reports that members of the New PDP would meet today on how to reconstitute the leadership of the National Assembly, which is made up of PDP.
According to the source “we are meeting to primarily set a new agenda for the 7th Assembly using our large number which is hovering around 95 to 125 Reps and 55 Senators,” the source said, adding: “We equally have the strong voices of 137 All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Green Chamber who have vowed to support our cause.
“if you add 137 to 95, we are clearly in the majority in the House of Reps and we will speak with one voice.
“This large figure of Reps will speak in one voice in all proceedings bordering on bills and motions.
