The House of Representatives on Sunday rejected one of its members’ call for impeachment processes to commence against President Muhammadu Buhari.
The House of Representatives on Sunday rejected one of its members’ call for impeachment processes to commence against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Hon. Kingsley Chinda, representing Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency in Rivers State at the House of Representatives had in a press release, called on Nigerians irrespective of political party, tribe, or religion to compel their representatives to commence impeachment process against the president over Nigeria’s security challenges
Hon. Chinda who is the leader of the PDP caucus in the house of representatives said in a statement that the president is guilty of “gross incompetence and continuous breach” of his constitutional powers to ensure the security of Nigerians.
The caucus likened him to Emperor Nero, an emperor of ancient Rome who is fabled to have “fiddled while Rome burned”. The lawmakers hinged their call on the recent Boko haram attack in Borno during which more than 40 farmers were killed.
Chinda asked Nigerians to “wake up” their representatives in the legislative chamber to commence Buhari’s impeachment process.
“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 said.
“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.
Last week, the House resolved to summon the President over the issue.
However, the House spokesman Hon. Benjamin Kalu said calls for impeachment were not logical as the President is yet to appear before the House to explain what his administration is doing to address the security issue.
“If this call came post-President’s visit for the failure to dialogue well enough in securing solutions or due to his inability to put our positions to use, it would appear logical,” Kalu said.
“Unfortunately, this call is not only illogical, it appears as a tool mischievously thrown up to disrupt the agenda of the coming visit with all it sets out to achieve in the spirit of nation-building which remains the mantra of the 9th Assembly and is considered a joint task.”
