{"id":80778,"date":"2021-05-16T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=80778"},"modified":"2021-05-16T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T16:19:24","slug":"senate-divided-over-planned-impeachment-of-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-divided-over-planned-impeachment-of-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate divided over planned impeachment of Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1699932292227455104\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">The Senate has said some of its members who are advocating impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari are not serious about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the Peoples Democratic Party senators, Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), and Biodun Olujimi (Ekiti South), had in recent times said their colleagues in the Senate should not hesitate to take necessary constitutional\u00a0 legislative action against Buhari if the current insecurity continue unabated.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the opposition parties in both chambers had also, penultimate week, threatened to invoke their constitutional powers and move against the President if he failed to tackle the worsening insecurity in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>But reacting to the development, Senate spokesperson, Ajibola Basiru who is also an APC member representing the Osun Central Senatorial District, said on over the weekend that his colleagues should not play politics with the issue of security.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Basiru said, \u201cI don\u2019t think they (pro-impeachment senators) are serious about it!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey ought to know better that national security is not politics play thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Fadahunsi had while contributing to a motion moved by Senator Sani Musa, on the state of insecurity on the floor of the Senate last month, said that something drastic must be done, adding that the Senate must do its work.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator had said, \u201cWhen the government cannot maintain security again, economic problem is mounting then something drastic must be done. We have the power. We can install and we can remove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it means we have to look at that clause, we have to sit down during an executive session and harmonise and do it the way we should do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not, one day we will sit down here and one\u00a0 small boy will carry an AK47 riffle and everybody will run away. We may not be lucky. Are we going to wait for that time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the government has failed to protect us, the Senate should do the needful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olujimi, who is representing Ekiti South in the upper chamber on the platform of the PDP had also said her colleagues should not hesitate to opt for Buhari\u2019s impeachment whenever the need arose.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has said some of its members who are advocating impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari are not serious about the issue. 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