Tribalism among lawmakers will make impeaching Buhari difficult
The lawmaker representing Esan North-East/South-East Federal Constituency of Edo state, Sergius Ogun has blamed tribalism as part of the reasons President Muhammadu Buhari can never be impeached.
Ogun insisted that the National Assembly will never get enough signatures to effect the impeachment of the incumbent president.
Daily Report Nigeria understands that many Nigerians have called for the impeachment of the Predient Buhari owing to the high level of security challenges bedeviling the country.
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Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), stated that aid the failure to protect the citizens of the country by the Grand Commander of The Federal Republic is an impeachable offence.
“In the last six months, two years, what has the president done differently to secure the country? Absolutely nothing has been done and yet you see increasing failure of the state to protect citizens,” Huakeem said.
While reacting to the call impeachment calls, Ogun while speaking with Arise TV on Monday, revealed that ribalism will hinder the process at the national assembly.
“I don’t think we are going to get enough signatures to impeach the president anytime soon. We tried that in the eighth assembly and I, personally, signed. But we didn’t have enough signatures,” the lawmaker said.
“And I said a colleague of mine said, then, why should he support the impeachment of a Fulani Man or somebody from the north to the advantage of somebody from the south-west. Basically saying he doesn’t like the president but why should he support his impeachment for a Yoruba man to take over. That was the sentiment then and it’s even stronger today. So I don’t think we are going to get any traction there.
The lawmaker also maintained that Nigerians should not expect the president to resign as will cause a counter-campaign even if he eventually concedes to pressure.
“I don’t think the president will resign, this is Nigeria. If there’s enough pressure for him to resign, you’re going to have people who are going to be paid and mobilised to protest for him to stay. And we don’t need that right now with all the insecurity,” he said.
