The former Chief Whip declared: “It is trite law that a speaker, no matter how influential, cannot single-handedly remove a president. It requires a constitutional two-thirds majority of the entire House, followed by a rigorous, concurrent process in the Senate.” Bawa Bwari said the late Speaker Ghali Naaba “was far too sophisticated a political scientist, and far too deeply principled an institutionalist, to ever engage in an enterprise so hollow” adding that he (Naaba) was “simply too committed a democrat to dabble into such shenanigans. The former chief Whip also recalled several interventions by prominent and respected Nigerians who helped to douse tensions between the lawmakers and former president Olusegun Obasanjo saying that then speaker Ghali Naaba “respected the presidency, even as we fiercely guarded the independence of the legislature”. “We did not seek bribe nor were we willing to accept it in order to become a rubber stamp legislature.