The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, says Senate President Bukola Saraki will be impeached according to legal and democratic norms, having defected to the minority People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with 48 senators.

Oshiomhole said yesterday at a media briefing in Abuja in a reaction to the press conference addressed by Saraki on Tuesday that Saraki’s time is over in the leadership of the Senate.

He said the senate president is just trying to bring back the scenario over the leadership of the Nigeria Governors Forum under the PDP administration where 16 governors were said to be greater than 19.

He said the decision of the party to talk with him was not out of fear but out of conviction as a presiding officer.

Oshiomhole said the urgent intervention of the party leadership stopped his attempt to turn the APC into a minority in the senate, having allegedly told them that they would be arrested if Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected in 2019.

He said the party would ensure that he loses the senatorial seat in 2019, saying votes garnered by President Buhari were more than those of Saraki in 2015.

He said, “In any case, Saraki is not going to be the first senate president to be impeached and I doubt if he is going to be the last. But definitely, he will be impeached according to the law and democratic norms.

“The only way Saraki can avoid impeachment is for him to do what is honourable which again leads to the issue of character. We saw Senator GodswillAkpabio who was the PDP leader in the senate, once he made up his mind to leave the PDP, even before announcing his defection, the first role was to inform the PDP as a man of honour that he was resigning from office. So, Senator Saraki has demonstrated neither character nor honour.”

Oshiomhole, who accused Saraki of pursuing personal interests rather national interests, cited several instances of his actions to buttress his stand.

While flaying the Saraki-led senate for its refusal to endorse foreign loans, he also accused him of frustrating the implementation of critical infrastructure projects due to budget delay.

While expressing confidence in Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives who protected the interest of the party, he accused the senate president of trying to drag everybody along with him.

On the defection of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Oshiomhole, who said he had personal respect for the governor, stated that “ambitions are not negotiable. He (Tambuwal) knows my view about the action he has taken.”