The Presidency on Wednesday replied to members of the opposition parties who staged a walkout after they moved to serve impeachment notice on President Muhammadu Buhari during Wednesday’s plenary.
The lawmaker representing Osun East
Senatorial District at the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly,
Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has said the 9th Senate has all it takes to impeach
Buhari.
The impeachment move was hinged on the incessant attacks on
Nigerians by dreaded insurgents and the latest threats to overrun Abuja, the
nation’s capital.
However, the members of the opposition party were resisted
by some members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Reacting to the development, Garba Shehu, Special Adviser to
the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement titled: “DETERMINED TO BE
IN THE HEADLINES, PDP SENATORS ARE DIVIDED, CONFUSED,” criticized the
lawmakers.
The statement read in part, “Addressing newsmen in his
office shortly after the plenary, Senator Fadahunsi said, some APC lawmakers
were in support of the impeachment move and the remaining naysayers would join
the majority when the Senate resumes from the long vacation.
“The performative and babyish antics of those senators
staging a walk-out notwithstanding, Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s refusal on
Wednesday to entertain the ridiculous motion to impeach our President was quite
appropriate and correct.
“Rather than making a mockery out of voters by trying to
imitate what they see in America, the opposition would be well advised that
their time would be better spent tackling the pressing issues Nigerians face,
such as the current global cost of living crisis.
“Their continued failure to do so goes some way to
explaining why they remain in opposition.
“In contrast, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration
is committed to finding lasting solutions to the emerging security threats,
including those left behind by the PDP in the South-South, the Northeast, and
throughout the federation. In the last 24 hours, two more Chibok girls were
freed, in addition to the three brought home last week.
“These kinds of headline-grabbing stunts for which the
opposition is now well known serve no one, least of all their constituents. We
would respectfully remind them that it is those same constituents that they
were elected to serve and are paid to do so with public money.
“We would welcome their collaboration in our efforts to
solve the problems Nigerians face on a daily basis. No one is asking them to
waste their time attempting to impeach a democratically elected President at
the end of his second term – certainly not their constituents.
“They should ask themselves: do they want to be in government, or do they want to be in the headlines? If they want to be in government, they should start acting like it and stop undermining Nigerian voters.”
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