House of Representatives have been urged to drop the idea of scheming to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan have been described as jokers who should drop any idea of carrying out the plan.
Former militants in the Niger Delta gave the warning to the members of the lower chamber of the National Assembly that such a plan would amount to a direct attack on the people of the Niger Delta.
President of the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, a body of former leaders of militant camps in the region, Pastor Reuben Wilson, said in a statement in Port Harcourt, on Friday that the legislators had no moral right to commence any impeachment move against the president.
He added that former warlords and most Niger Delta people were behind the president.
Pastor Wilson said he and his colleagues would take all legitimate steps to resist attempts to embarrass the president, noting that federal lawmakers had lost the respect of Nigerians with what happened at the National Assembly on Thursday.
According to him, the former militants were watching events in the country and would take steps at the appropriate time to ensure that the nation’s democracy was not desecrated.
Wilson warned the National Assembly not to provoke them into visiting them to register their grievances concerning their conducts and show of disrespect for the office and person of the president.
They call themselves honourable members, but I can say that for legislators to scale the fence of the National Assembly to gain entry into the hallowed chambers, they have lost the respect of the public.
It is only criminals that jump to gain entry into places. Honourable people do not behave like that. We are watching what they are doing. Let me inform them that their latest attempt at impeaching the president will fail.
The Speaker, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, should do the honourable thing by vacating his seat because the law says when you defect to another party, you automatically have lost your seat,” the statement read.
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