{"id":1159525,"date":"2022-07-26T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/no-plot-to-impeach-gbaja-over-water-resources-bill-say-northern-reps\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:16:02","slug":"no-plot-to-impeach-gbaja-over-water-resources-bill-say-northern-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/no-plot-to-impeach-gbaja-over-water-resources-bill-say-northern-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plot To Impeach Gbaja Over Water Resources Bill, Say Northern Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Femi Gbajabiamila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The northern caucus in the house of representatives has denied reports that it will initiate an impeachment process against Femi Gbajabiamila, if he fails to support the controversial water resources bill.<\/p>\n

At plenary on Tuesday, Sarki Ardar, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and chairman of the northern caucus, raised a point of privilege and called the attention of his colleagues to an online report.<\/p>\n

According to the lawmaker, the report alleged that northern lawmakers who are \u201cbent on making sure the bill succeeds\u201d, have \u201cplotted\u201d to impeach Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house, if he does not support the proposed legislation to pass second reading.<\/p>\n

Also speaking against the report, Hassan Fulata, chairman of the committee on rules and business, described it as \u201ccheap blackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Ortom: Benue Not In Support Of Water Resources Bill<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNobody can dictate to this house what it can do. We cannot take from our members and we cannot take from a foreign imperialist. Nobody can tell us how to do our job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll members are solidly behind speaker Gbajabiamila. Some of us suffered tremendously in the last assembly. There is no way we will impeach Femi because of the so-called water resources bill. This is cheap blackmail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the bill passes, fine. If the bill fails to pass, fine. It will be based on solid arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Idris Wase, deputy speaker of the house who presided over plenary, said he was also not aware of any plot to impeach the speaker.<\/p>\n

Idris Wase, deputy speaker of the house who presided over plenary, said he was also not aware of any plot to impeach the speaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing like that going on to the best of my knowledge. I am a northerner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to plead with my colleagues to toe the line of what has been mentioned to us; to trust one another; to believe that we are working as a family. We should not be carried by emotions and sentiments towards dividing us. We remain the symbol of democracy in this country and in any nation, the parliament is a symbol of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wase said the report was \u201cimplanted\u201d as a \u201cgang-up\u201d against members of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Femi Gbajabiamila The northern caucus in the house of representatives has denied reports that it will initiate an impeachment process against Femi Gbajabiamila, if he fails to support the controversial water resources bill. At plenary on Tuesday, Sarki Ardar, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and chairman of the northern caucus, raised a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}