Impeachment: Jonathan Meets Nasarawa Lawmakers In Abuja

There is trouble in Nasarawa State as the PDP is plotting to remove a Governor that was elected by the people of the state. Consequently, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday met behind closed-doors with members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly.

The meeting is believed to be Jonathan’s way of intervening in the impeachment process that the lawmakers had instituted against the state Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, who met with the President over the weekend in his bid to stop his illegal removal from office.

The members of the assembly who met with Jonathan were led by their Speaker, Musa Muhammed. He told State House correspondents at the end of the parley that the meeting was a private one.

“It is a private visit. We are here to see the President on a private visit. I do not have the mandate of the assembly to address the press. We have the Chairman of the House Committee on Information who we have agreed should be talking on our behalf,” he said. 

When asked whether the assembly was under pressure from the Presidency or any other quarters to drop the impeachment process, Muhammed asked, “Who is putting pressure on who?”

When pressed further to disclose whether the meeting had changed the situation in the state, the Speaker said he did not have the mandate of the assembly to speak with journalists. He said only the Chairman of the House Committee on Information was mandated to speak to journalists.

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