Senate denies impeachment plot against Mark

The Senate has described as false media reports purporting a plot by some aggrieved senators to impeach its president, David Mark.

It was reported in some sections of the media that 73 of the 109 aggrieved senators who lost nominations of their political parties to return to the upper chamber would impeach the Senate president at its resumed hearing on Tuesday.

Some of those who lost out include Victor Ndoma-Egba, Senate leader; Helen Esuene, Uche Chukwumerije, Bassey Otu, Ita Enang, Aloysius Etok, Heineken Lokpobiri, among others.

In a swift reaction, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senate spokesman, said such unfounded story only exists in the imagination of its authors.

He added that senators operating as a body of one united family have never at any time found any ground to move against its leadership or even thwart the long-standing camaraderie the upper chamber is known for, irrespective of political party affiliations.

The Senate, Abaribe said, has a tested internal mechanism, which has severally been ably deployed by the president of the Senate and members of his leadership to tackle any difficult issue that arises within and outside the chamber.

Such mechanisms and channels, according to him, are inexhaustible and will always be deployed by the leadership of the Senate.

“Senators have implicit confidence in the leadership of the Senate ably led by Senator Mark and there is nothing now to suggest or confer any iota of truth on the media insinuation of any form of schism that could warrant the removal of the president of the Senate”, he said.

He called for restraint on the reportage of issues that are not factual.

OWEDE AGBAJILEKE