"Call For Impeachment Is Not Treason" - APC

Lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday debunked presidency's claim that the call for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan amounted to treason. 

They claimed that charges of incompetence were currencies for traffic by the opposition in a democracy.
They were dismissive of the threats of a treason charge from the Presidency as they asserted that impeachment was a part of the democratic process.
The APC Minority Whip, Samson Osagie, flayed the threat describing it as empty.
He said: “It’s an empty threat. Impeachment is a constitutional process by which a parliament removes from office a president, vice president, governor or deputy governor.
“It cannot amount to treason because it’s not an unconstitutional means to change government.
“What the Presidency should do is to respond as honestly as possible to all the issues of constitutional breaches flying everywhere through various letters.”
It  has also been revealed that APC, was yet to mobilise its members in the National Assembly to commence the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan despite its call on Sunday on the legislators to commence the removal of the President.


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