President Muhammadu Buhari has
spoken on the impeachment notice served on Benue Governor Samuel Ortom by eight
members of the State House of Assembly.
Buhari’s reaction was contained
in a statement Tuesday morning by his spokesman, Femi Adesina.
It read: “Even while attending
the ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit in Togo, strident attempts were being made to drag
President Muhammadu Buhari into the unfolding drama between the executive and
the legislature in Benue State.
“Statements have been issued by
different interest groups, insinuating that the President may have a hand in
the development in Benue. This is paranoia at its worst, coming from people who
have wittingly positioned themselves against the clean-up of the country, and
the way we do things. They prefer business as usual.
“President Buhari will never be
part of any unconstitutional act, and any attempt to link him with the
inglorious past, when minority number of lawmakers impeached governors, will
not stick. It will simply be like water off the duck’s back.
“Those with open minds know this,
but those who cavil would rather source everything untoward to the President.
It is murky ground in which they are now marooned, as fallout of their
resistance to change in the country.
“When it suits them, they preach
separation of powers and true federalism, and in another breath, they call on
the President to interfere brazenly in affairs at state level.
“President Buhari will always
stand by all that is noble and fair, and will reject attempts to drag him into
infamy. People who stoke fires by deliberate acts of omission or commission,
and then summon the President to come and put it out will find that this
President will be guided by the Constitution at all times, no matter the
attempt to entangle him in unwarranted controversies.”
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