By Uche Mbah
Facts are gradually emerging on why Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, suddenly, sent Senators on a long vacation.
After a riotous session earlier this week, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caucus walked out in protest against the leadership of the Senate.
This was as the Senate President shot down a motion to debate the security crisis rocking the nation raised by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, on the ground that he was not privately consulted before the matter was brought to Plenary.
The Senators walked out chanting solidarity songs of “Buhari must go”. They met a barricaded door.
But the under-the-table dealings, The Source Magazine was informed, why Lawan acted fast to send Senators on a long recess are two fold. One was to avert the service to President Muhammadu Buhari, an impeachment notice. The other bothered on letters of defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, allegedly, submitted by twelve All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators notifying the President of their intentions to defect.
It was gathered that many of them, who are of Northern extraction, have decided to dump the APC.
If all defected to the PDP, the Party will now have a majority of 53 Senators, while the APC will be reduced to 50. This, automatically, means that Lawan would loses his seat as Senate President since his party would no longer be in the majority .
“So the best gamble is to sit on their defection letter”, says a National Assembly source.
If this happens, the impeachment of Buhari will sail through seamlessly.
The Presidency has, however, dismissed the impeachment threats, describing the Senators as jokers.
