Buhari’s purported impeachment plot a huge joke, says APC

Wamakko refutes media report linking him with the plan

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday described the purported move to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari as a huge joke.

In a statement yesterday by its National Secretary, Malam Mai Mala Buni, the party admonished senators not to allow those that it described as “political shenanigans” to becloud the overall national interest of the country.

Describing media reports of plot by some senators to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari during Tuesday’s July 12, 2016 closed-door session of the Senate as laughable, the party further enjoined the lawmakers in question to stop the huge joke and concentrate on their primary constitutional responsibilities of lawmaking and discharging of their legislative mandates to their constituents at the National Assembly.

It described as baseless repeated allegations that the court cases involving the Senate leadership are politically-motivated by President Buhari and the APC.

Meanwhile, former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has refuted a report by an online publication linking him with clandestine meetings where plans to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari were being hatched.

A statement by his media aide, Alhaji Abubakar Dangusau, said the former governor neither had knowledge of such meetings nor was his house being used to conduct such meetings.

It described the report as not only imaginary and mischievous but also callous and defamatory because as an ardent believer in the Buhari Presidency, Senator Wamakko could never be a party to such a treasonable move.

It said that the senator was in full support of all efforts to revamp the economy as well as the anti-corruption war and fight against insurgency, adding that this was not the time to “abandon the President, APC and the nation.”