[Auspicious]

Originally Posted by Son of the Delta

Auspicious,
Is gun-point impeachment legal or illegal?

"Gun point impeachment"? What is that? I was actually hoping you were going to enlighten me, perhaps academically, how the said impeachment of Diepreye Alamieyeshiegha breached the rules in the statute books of the Federal Republic.

For example, I can tell you that the impeachment of Ayo Fayose was illegal because the state lawmakers acted against the spirit of the Constitution of the Federal Republic when they suspended a Chief Justice and appointed a substantive Chief Justice and empowered him to constitute a new panel to oversee the impeachment - when those lawmakers were not even empowered by the same Constitution they claimed they were following to do such a thing! And in Oyo, the required quorum needed to impeach a sitting Governor was never met..and the same thing that happened in Oyo is about to play out in Plateau.

Now, can you tell me, SPECIFICALLY in a nutshell, how the PROCESS of Governor Alamieyesigha's impeachment was unconstitutional - "illegal" in the layman's words? I know you can do better than the hypothetical question you posed above in response. Anybody out there? Can somebody pleeeease enlighten me? How exactly is Alamieyeseigha's removal from power unconstitutional Was it simply a case of "gun-point impeachment" as alleged by SOD? What does "gun-point impeachment" mean? Were all the law-makers physically threatened with a gun to the head? Were they threatened to be killed? Is that it, or theirs was some specific instances of disregard for the rule of law as guaranteed by the Constitution of Nigeria?

Auspicious.