It was disclosed yesterday by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that all machineries have been put in place to ensure a peaceful resolution of the disagreement between the House of Representative and President Goodluck Jonathan. It said it was ready resolve amicably the impeachment threat of President Goodluck Jonathan by the House of Representatives and the position of the President as regards the budget.
Addressing journalists on the outcome of the meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja, observed that such impeachment threat is normal in every democratic dispensation, citing examples from other countries and other previous regimes.
He said: “The party is taking up the process because there is a process with which party meets the people. Many of them are PDP people, but they have their grievances.
“We will not also say that they are PDP people and of course we will lord it over them. This thing must be attended to diplomatically, so that wherever anybody has gone wrong, it will be sorted out and eventually this storm will definitely die down.
“The party has set up machinery to look into all the grievances of members of the National Assembly and what is the position of the President. There must be an area for the two parties to meet and this thing should be resolved for the interest of democracy in this country. So, there is no threat actually, as it were, it is the usual thing that happens in any democratic process.”
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