Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has boasted that he can never be impeached, saying the All Progressives Congress, APC, championing the cause is in minority and does not have the powers to carry out the threat.
Saraki also made it clear that he would never step down as Senate president as demanded by the APC.
According to him, succumbing to such calls will only amount to sacrificing the national interest of the country for personal interest.
Saraki, who who spoke in an interview with newsmen in Minna, Niger State, as part of his presidential campaign yesterday, said: “The APC members know that we are in the majority and whatever they want to do they know that they don’t have the number.
“The other kite they are trying to fly is asking me to step down from my seat but I can tell you that this cannot be possible as I will not step down.
“One thing is very clear and that is to say that I will not sacrifice the interest of the country for my personal interest and in the last three years as a Senate president, I have demonstrated that my interest is second to that of the nation.”
He condemned the calls from various quarters on the Senate to suspend its recess and resume, adding that it was a collective decision by all members to adjourn and that the recess was under the ambit of law.
He said the National Assembly has, therefore, not contravened any section of the procedures in embarking on the recess and reconvene when it was time to resume from break.
“We did not adjourn the Senate in the dark; there was a procedure where at the end of the session, there was a vote and it was seconded that we should go on the annual recess.
“So it wasn’t anything done in the secret, everybody was there. It is not that some few people met somewhere and took the decision.
“Everybody participated and everybody took the decision that we should adjourn for a normal annual recess.
“We took a similar decision last year and even two years ago and we agreed to resume on a certain date and it was the agreed date that we resumed, so there is nothing abnormal about the Senate adjournment this year and what we are after is a country rooted in the rule of law and a democratic process.
“What is important to me is to ensure the independence of the three arms of government, to allow rule of law, to ensure that we respect the democratic process,” he declared.
On his Presidential ambition, the Senate President said his ambition was to unite all Nigerians, no matter their ethnic, religious and political leanings.
According to him, “the country needs a President that can unite everybody; the country needs a leader who will make all Nigerians have a sense of belonging; the country needs a youthful president, the country needs a president that understands how the executive and legislature work together and not in an environment where there is no harmony.”
On whether he still has control of Kwara State, Saraki said: “The people of the state know their leader and we are not the type that patronize the electorate a few months to elections and disappear after such elections and resurface years later.
“We are with our people election or no election and we will continue to be with them and the people will also continue to embrace us all the time, so the 2019 general elections will surely determine who the leader is, so let us wait till then,” he declared.
Meanwhile, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former Nigeria Military President, has assured Dr. Saraki on his presidential ambition saying, “it is my turn to do what your father did to me”.
General Babangida, who made this known when Saraki visited him as part of his campaign tour for the forthcoming Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, convention, said he will treat the Senate presidential aspirant as his own son.
IBB said: “I remember when I was still in office, I spoke with your father, Oloye Saraki, who was always providing advises on a number of things attached to this country.
“He always made
