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Our correspondents on the ground at the national assembly report that\u00a0<\/span>lawmakers and staff are being turned back from the premises and gates\u00a0<\/span>of Nigeria\u2019s parliament, with all entry and exit points locked to visitors.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Serving Senator Rafiu Ibrahim was heard asking the DSS officials: \u201chas the\u00a0military taken over?\u201d after he was prevented from gaining access to the\u00a0<\/span>national assembly complex.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Top ranking sources who spoke to Pulse on the basis of anonymity say\u00a0Tuesday morning\u2019s barricade is part of the grand plot to impeach Saraki\u00a0<\/span>who defected to the opposition PDP on July 31.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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An additional battalion of police officers have also just arrived the national\u00a0assembly complex.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Midnight meeting<\/p>\n
\u201c30 APC senators met with the Director General (DG) of DSS at\u00a0midnight of Monday, August 6 at the DSS headquarters. The plot is to\u00a0<\/span>impeach the senate president and deputy senate president today (August\u00a0<\/span>7)\u201d, a top ranking source in the national assembly disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Pulse was also told that the APC has all but concluded plans to install\u00a0Senators Ahmad Lawan as senate president and Hope Uzodinma as deputy\u00a0<\/span>senate president once the duo of Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu have been\u00a0<\/span>kicked out of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Senate spokesperson Sabi Abdullahi wasn\u2019t immediately available for\u00a0comments. Pulse also tried to reach APC Chairman Adams Oshiomhole f<\/span>or comments but calls placed to his mobile returned unanswered.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Impeaching Saraki<\/p>\n
The APC needs two thirds majority in the senate to impeach Saraki who\u00a0called for an emergency meeting of principal and presiding officers of\u00a0<\/span>parliament on the night of Monday, August 6.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Pulse has been told that Saraki called for the meeting because he is well\u00a0aware of the plot by the APC to impeach him.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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The APC currently has 53 lawmakers on its books with the PDP boasting\u00a051\u2014at least by some accounts. The senate plans to hold a headcount\u00a0<\/span>when parliament reconvenes in September, to ascertain just how many l<\/span>awmakers belong to either party. At the moment, both parties are\u00a0<\/span>claiming the majority in a 109 member senate.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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The APC has since poached Senator Godswill Akpabio who until his\u00a0defection, was minority leader in the upper legislative chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Akpabio\u2019s first task as an APC senator, Pulse has been told, will be to\u00a0poach as many PDP senators as possible who will make up the two- t<\/span>hirds figure required to impeach Saraki.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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On July 24, 2018, Senate President Saraki reeled out the names of 15 APC\u00a0senators who were making the switch to the PDP, leaving Nigeria\u2019s g<\/span>overning party badly depleted in parliament and leaving in peril\u00a0<\/span>President Buhari\u2019s hopes of passing key legislation and the nation\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>budget.<\/span>
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