The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) parliamentary in the House of Representatives has solicited members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to invoke the provisions of Section 144 (1) of the Constitution by declaring President Muhammadu Buhari incapable on the grounds of incompetency to discharge the functions of the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Leader of the PDP, Rep. Kingsley Chinda, in a statement on Sunday, said Buhari should be impeached for gross incompetence and his continued breach of Section 14(2) (b) of the 1999 Constitution. Where he expressed that it was despondent to the PDP party that the president has failed to lead Nigerians from the front as he promised.
“Nigerians are daily and defenselessly killed by terrorists and bandits, while public officers are freely bleeding the economy,” he lamented.
The PDP caucus also obliged Nigerians to compel their state representatives in the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings effective immediately against the President for “gross incompetence and persistent and continuous breach of Section 14(2) (b) of the 1999 Constitution.” Which partly reads, “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.
“We call on Nigerians across tribes, religions and political parties to wake up their National Assembly members and compel them to commence impeachment process against President Buhari to save Nigeria.”
In reaction to the killing of 43 rice farmers in Zambarmari area of Borno State, he said the response from the Presidency and the military to such killings “highlight a certain crassness and lame-duck attitude that has for the past five years come to define the Buhari presidency.”
The PDP caucus criticized that the government’s laid-back approach to insurgency is of growing concern, as it emboldens terrorists operations in the country, noting that “Northern Nigeria has long become the vortex of massacres. From Buni Yadi, Gamboru, Baga, Gwoza, Shiroro, Konduga, Kawuri, Southern Kaduna to Benue and certainly everywhere else in Nigeria, lives are being snatched by insurgents, bandits and kidnappers who have no respect for the sanctity of life.”
“While President Buhari idles in the typical fashion of Emperor Nero as our country burns, questions must be asked about his capacity to lead at a time that our country desires robust and responsible leadership that can pull it from the brink and rescue it from the insurgents, terrorists, bandits and kidnappers.
“President Buhari is unwilling to provide leadership to our fast collapsing country. Rather than take the proverbial bull by the horn, President Buhari ensconces himself in Aso Rock, typical of a mourner-in-chief, and issues press statements that make no meaning to a grieving nation”.
