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The All Progressives Congress APC has restated its desire to remove the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from office, but said rather than expending millions ofNaira of public funds on the project, it would instead deploy its numerical strength in the Upper Chamber to get Saraki out of the way.

The party was responding to media inquiries about the allegations from its splinter group, Reformed APC which accused her of deploying public funds on a clearly partisan venture.

“It is the cry of a drowning man. Kassim Afegbua and his cohorts are trying to elicit sentiments and to make futile attempts at denting the integrity of the APC led government”, Yekini Nabena, acting Publicity Secretary of the APC said of the allegations by the R-APC.

Nabena said the reason why most of them are defecting is that the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration is not sharing money which is the PDP philosophy.

“So, this administration can not inject taxpayers money into impeaching the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is a serious government and not a dead party called the PDP”.

The APC added further that; “What PDP is doing is to whip up sentiments before their final burial in 2019. National Assembly members have procedures on how a Speaker or President of the Senate can be impeached. And we believe that the APC lawmakers know their rules and they will apply it accordingly.

“The hierarchy of the APC has no business spending money to impeach these people because APC still commands the majority in both Houses. Since Saraki has gone back to where he came from, he can not preside over majority APC lawmakers. Therefore we will use our numerical strength to remove him following the rule of law

“So, let the PDP propaganda machine continue to raise a false alarm. We will remain focused and ensure that President Buhari is not distracted by charlatans. Very soon we shall separate the men from the boys”.

•Culled from a Vanguard report