Saraki, Dogara conderm Benue seige, say Current Situation in Benue is a Desecration of Legislative Sanctity

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Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara have described as ” a desecration of the legislative sanctity”, the on-going situation in Benue State in which eight out of the 30 members of the State House of Assembly have commenced impeachment process against the governor with the support of the police, the 22 other members who constitute more than two-third majority are kept away from the Assembly complex.

In a statement jointly signed by their media aides, Saraki and Dogara also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the police to order and stop being used to achieve political purposes.

They stressed that the situation in Benue State House of Assembly has grave implication for Nigeria’s Democracy and represents a throw-back to the period of dictatorship in the country.

They further stressed that the unlawful and unconstitutional move to Impeach Governor Samuel Ortom by a minority should be condemned by all lovers of democracy, at home and abroad. The Leadership of the National Assembly also called on friends of Nigeria in the international community to lend their voice in condemning the perpetration of illegalities and actions that can subvert Nigeria’s democracy.

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