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Why It’s Difficult For National Assembly To Impeach Buhari – Rep
- “I don’t think the president will resign, this is Nigeria”
Sergius Ogun, lawmaker representing Esan north-east/south-east federal constituency of Edo state, says impeaching president Muhammadu Buhari is a pipe dream and practically impossible task because of sharp disunity and division among federal lawmakers.
Ekohotblog reports that there have been sustained strident calls for the the federal lawmakers to invoke the impeachment clause against Buhari amid the troubling and precarious state of the country, chief of which are perennial insecurity and raging inflation.
Recall that Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), had said the President should be impeached over his failure to protect the citizens of the country.
“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,” he had said
Reacting to the call for the president’s impeachment, Ogun, while speaking with Arise TV on Monday, said it would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to muster enough support across religious and tribal line to impeach the president.
Ogun said any impeachment proceeding would be truncated by regional and tribal interest which would make it difficult to garner enough signatures for materialisation of the president’s removal.
President Muhammadu Buhari
“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.
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Ogun recalled how a fellow lawmaker during the eight assembly opposed the impeachment of Buhari, not because he felt Buhari had performed excellently as the number one man, but because he could not stomach the thought of having a Yoruba man take over if the president was impeached.
“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.”
Ogun also said the president resigning was a wishful thinking, adding that there will be 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.
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