Trump will remain US president, says Putin

Russian President, Vladimir Putin (Left), US President, Donald Trump (Right) 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the impeachment of President Donald Trump was based on “made -up” grounds.

Speaking at his marathon end- of - year news conference, Putin described the events in the US legislature as “simply the continuation of a internal political fight” between Democrats and Republicans.



He however, expressed optimism that the senate which is dominated by the Republicans will acquit the president.




He said, “It still needs to go through the Senate, where the Republicans have a majority,” Putin said after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump for abuse of power.

“And it is hardly likely that they are going to push out of office a representative of their own party, on grounds that are absolutely made -up,” he added.


He also alleged that the impeachment of Donald Trump was only a pretext used by the Democrats after failing to corner him over claims that Moscow interfered in the presidential elections that brought him to power.

“The Democrats accused Trump of a plot with Russia, and then it emerged that there was no kind of plot. It could not be the basis of an impeachment,” said Putin.

“Then they thought up some kind of pressure on Ukraine.”

Recall that Trump was impeached Wednesday over a telephone conversation where he pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his potential White House challenger in 2020, the veteran Democrat Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, had also reacted to the impeachment of the US President by the house of representatives.

He said that Donald Trump is God's ordained president and no matter how hard the democrats try, they will never succeed against him because his secret is "Isaiah 45".