8 APC Lawmakers Backed By Police Take Over Benue Assembly, To Impeach Gov. Ortom

Benue Governor

Looks like Nigeria's democracy will be ridiculed by the present police authorities in Abuja with the way they are 'acting'. A detachment of armed mobile policemen, believed to have been drawn from Abuja, have reportedly connived with minority lawmakers to take over Benue House of Assembly complex, in a bid to impeach the governor.

An impeachment notice has been served to the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, by 8 out of 30 lawmakers in the state's House of Assembly who took over the premises of the state parliament with the support of the police.

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ECONOMIC RECESSION: EMEFIELE IS NOT OUR PROBLEM

Godwin Emefiele,

By Williams Eghebi
   Early this year, Pastor Tunde Bakare, apparently in response to his dwindling church collections, called for the resignation or sack of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Some legislators including Dino Melaye, the unofficial spokesman of the embattled Senator Bukola Saraki,  joined the fray without empirical fact to link the current economic challenges to the nation's chief banker. These rabble-rousers received unquantifiable attacks from all angles.
Last week, a member of the Federal House of Representatives,  probably instigated by excess gulping of restricted beverage, chose the CBN Governor as the specimen to test it's potency. According to him, Mr. Emefiele should be shown the exit door as sacrifice for the harsh economic realities we now face.My knowledge of economics did not transcend my secondary school aside what I gathered from my interactions with several countries visited and media reportage. But this recap may serve useful purpose.

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