PDP Senators are taking turns to sleep at the National Assembly to prevent Senate President's impeachment by APC Senators

Senators on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have taken to sleeping in shifts at the National Assembly complex to prevent any sinister plans by Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to impeach Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

The APC has relentlessly called for Saraki's impeachment since he dumped the party for the PDP last month and both sides have made several public allegations of evil plots by the other party.

While speaking in Nasarawa State on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, Senator Philip Gyunka (Nasarawa North - PDP) disclosed that PDP Senators are keeping vigil at the National Assembly complex to prevent anti-Saraki senators from using the cover of darkness to impeach him.

According to a report by The Nation, GyunkasaidPDP senators are rotating shifts and keeping watch to make Saraki's removal impossible.

He said, "I woke up this morning from my night shift and I will still be going back to my night shift. That is to say we are keeping vigil.

"We are rotating the shift among ourselves. As regards what they are saying about impeachment, it is not possible because the international community is aware of their plot.

"Don't be discouraged. They will intimidate you as they do to us. Like myself, I don't know how many times they have been calling me. We didn't know they have come to truncate democracy. But the Senate president, being a product of PDP, has come to the rescue of the the situation.

"We are keeping watch on their plans. If they want the Senate President removed, which is impossible they must have two third majorities. They have been attempting and failing.

"I know they will still make attempts but they will not succeed because I know Nigerians will not allow them to make mockery of the nation's democracy."

Senator Gyunka also condemned APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for spearheading the campaign to impeach Saraki.

"If you hear a lawmaker speaking, he is speaking the minds of thousands of people. How then should someone, who was appointed and has neither gone to the rural areas to feel the pulse of the people, nor held town hall meeting be insisting that a man that was duly chosen by his colleagues be removed at all course.

"Oshiomhole should be educated that this is not unionism. This is an issue that has to do with the Constitution and we will not allow him to violate it," he said.

Saraki's impeachment drama

The national assembly adjourned legislative sittings till September 25 during plenary on July 24, amid a controversial clampdown by security operatives on Saraki and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in what has been described as a witch-hunt orchestrated by the executive.

The alleged witch-hunt raised even more concerns when operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS)invaded the national assembly complex on Tuesday, August 7, 2018.

The APC has been putting public pressure on Saraki to reconvene the National Assembly, describing his actions of 'shutting down' parliament as bordering on high treason.

The Senate President has rebuffed such calls and recently disclosed that he's considering contesting in the 2019 presidential election.