The Presidency has said the refusal of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to entertain the motion to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari by some senators at plenary on Wednesday was appropriate and correct, saying the lawmakers are “headline grabbers”.
The Presidency said the impeachment move by the senators was “ridiculous”, noting that Buhari was committed to finding lasting solutions to the worsening insecurity in the country.
Some senators from opposition political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and some members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), were reported to have expressed frustration over the nation’s security problems, giving the President a six-week deadline to address the issue or face impeachment proceedings.
Reacting to the development, the Presidency, in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said: “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.
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“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.”
Shehu added that the Federal Government would welcome the collaboration of the opposition in the government’s 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,” the presidential spokesman stated.
