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Revealed:- ‘Why Buhari didn’t act on NASS resolution to sack service chiefs’

More air has been cleared over the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs during meeting with the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the deteriorating security situation in the country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday

This came days after both chambers of the National Assembly passed unanimous resolutions on the security situation to formally present to Buhari.

While the House urged the President to sack the service chiefs and appoint new ones, the Senate sought the imposing of a state of emergency on insecurity.

Findings by correspondents over the weekend indicated that though Buhari at the meeting saw reasons in the position of the House, in particular, he was not obliged to act immediately as requested by the lawmakers.

A top National Assembly official told newsmen that the President did not want to appear like he was taking directives from the legislature.

The official said, “The President was on the same page with the National Assembly but did not want to seem he was under the directive of the National Assembly.”

It was learnt that the legislators argued that given the current cordial relationship between the President and the legislature, Buhari should act on the resolutions, just as he expected the lawmakers to act on his requests.

The source said, “There was the argument that for reciprocity he should act on the resolutions of the National Assembly since he too expected the lawmakers to yield to his proposals to the National Assembly

But the President felt he would decide by himself if he needed to (sack the service chiefs), not because the National Assembly said so. He is not taking directives from them.” However, the President was said to be “truly embarrassed” by the security situation and admitted so to Lawan and Gbajabiamila at the meeting

Otunba T.J Abass

The Publisher, Ekohotblog.com