APC, PDP disagree over call for Buhari’s Impeachment

▪︎ It is constitutional, says PDP

▪︎Chinda’s insensitive, callous intention is to play politics with the grief of citizens-APC

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have disagreed over the call on Nigerians to compel their representatives in the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari.

Leader of the PDP Caucus in the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda made call in a press release.

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In a statement, by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP asserted that the call by its caucus in the House of Representatives asking Nigerians to direct their representatives, across party lines, to commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari was constitutional and democratic.

The party stated that the call was a direct reflection of the mood and desires of the Nigerian people, given President Buhari’s manifest failure in all spheres of governance and particularly in failing to provide an effective leadership that can guarantee the security of the nation and rescue the economy, which had collapsed in his hands.

“As a party, the PDP had always called on our federal legislators in the House of Representatives and the Senate, irrespective of political affiliations, to stand on the side of the people by deploying the legislative instruments provided in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) in rescuing the ship of state.

“The Buhari administration had already accepted failure as reflected in the declaration by one of its officials, that the nation is now at the mercy of bandits and terrorists, a development that signals that he had outlived its usefulness.

“President Buhari is elected by the people; his stay in office is also dependent on the people as vested on them by the Constitution, through their elected representatives in the National Assembly,” the opposition said.

The PDP also urged Nigerians to eschew all primordial sentiments and stand for the nation at this critical time.

But in a swift reaction, the APC said Kingsley Chinda, who is a factional “leader” of the PDP Caucus in the House of Representatives had resorted to denigrate the office and person of the President by name-calling and insults.

The ruling party in a statement by the Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said Chinda’s insensitive and callous intention is to play politics with the grief of citizens in the aftermath of the recent, gruesome and condemnable killings of some defenceless farmers in Zabarmari, Borno state by Boko Haram.

“The APC will not join Chinda and his PDP backers on this evil and ignoble road.
We have since learnt that Chinda does not even have the support of any of the PDP House factions he claims to head. He is a lone, rejected voice.

“The House of Representatives has already dismissed Chinda’s rant as illogical, self-serving and a ploy to derail the proposed visit of the President to the House,” the APC said.

It further stated that the leadership of the National Assembly, the President and Armed Forces which the president heads as Commander- in- Chief are on the same page in tackling emerging security situations in the country and ensuring the safety of all Nigerians.