By our reporter| The caucus of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Representatives on Sunday urged Nigerians to compel their representatives in the National Assembly to without delay begin impeachment proceedings against the President Muhammadu Buhari for “gross incompetence and persistent and continuous breach of Section 14(2) (b) of the 1999 Constitution.”
The caucus also called on members of the Federal Executive Council to invoke the provisions of Section 144 (1) of the Constitution by declaring that Buhari was incapable of discharging the functions of the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In a statement seen by Alabingo.com the leader of the main opposition party caucus, Kingsley Chinda, said it was disheartening to the caucus that the President has failed to lead Nigerians from the front as he promised.
He said, “Nigerians are daily and defencelessly killed by terrorists and bandits, while the economy is being freely bled by public officers.”
According to Chinda, the reactions from the presidency and the military to the killing of 43 rice farmers in Zambarmari area of Borno State, “highlight a certain crassness and lame duck attitude that has for the past five years come to define the Buhari presidency.”
He noted that the greater worry for the country, however, was the “do-nothing posturing and the effeminate reactions of the Presidency and the military that follow the dastardly attacks.”
“The PDP caucus in the House of Representatives has observed with deep pain the dastardly attacks on poor farmers, which have continued unabated across the vast swathes of northern Nigeria, which act came to a sad climax over the weekend in Zabarmari, near Maiduguri, North-East Nigeria,” he continued.
He said from Buni Yadi, Gamboru, Baga, Gwoza, Shiroro, Konduga, Kawuri, Southern Kaduna to Benue and “certainly, everywhere else in Nigeria, lives were being snatched by insurgents, bandits and kidnappers, who have no respect for the sanctity of life.”
“While President Buhari idles in the typical fashion of Emperor Nero as our country burns, questions must be asked about his capacity to lead at a time that our country desires robust and responsible leadership that can pull it from the brink and rescue it from the debilitations of insurgents, terrorists, bandits and kidnappers.
“We call on Nigerians across tribes, religions and political parties to wake up their National Assembly members and compel them to commence impeachment process against President Buhari to save Nigeria,” the statement concluded.
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