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Saraki can’t be impeached via Gestapo approach – Baraje tells Oshiomhole

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6 years ago

August 17, 2018

The leader of the Reformed All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Kawu Baraje , has said that the Senate President , Dr Bukola Saraki, cannot be impeached by Gestapo approach .He said it was an insult on Nigerians for the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Adams Oshiomhole , to be making an emphatic statement that Saraki would be impeached .

He spoke to journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Thursday , during the graduation ceremony at Baraje Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies .

Baraje said , “ The Constitution makes me to understand that only the senators can elect or impeach their president .

“ Somebody will just say because he is the chairman of the party , tomorrow , we are going to impeach the Senate President . Some of us have experiences of leading parties . Issues like that had come up and we knew how we handled it . ”

He added , “ It needs a lot of maturity and education and cool – headedness . It is not by Gestapo approach . In any case , the senators , through their body language , are saying that as far as they are concerned, they are not ready to impeach their president . ”

Baraje also said he had defected from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said , ” My formal declaration is coming up at a day arranged by my people . I am going to declare in my ward , that where my leader goes is where I go . I belong to the party that has made me and the party that has given me a lot in the politics of this country . I belong to the PDP . ”