{"id":97922,"date":"2022-08-10T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97922"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:16:17","slug":"impeaching-buhari-voters-job-not-politicians-us-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/impeaching-buhari-voters-job-not-politicians-us-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeaching Buhari voters\u2019 job, not politicians\u2019 \u2014 US politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A United States Republican Politician, Saul Anuzis has said that impeaching President Muhammadu Buhari is not the prerogative of opposition politicians, but the electorates.<\/p>\n<p>This was as he argued that politicians who take on such a role are undermining democracy itself.<\/p>\n<p>Anuzis, a former Michigan Republican Party Chairman on disclosed this in a piece published in the Washington Times on Tuesday titled \u2018America\u2019s newest export: Impeachment Proceedings.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, the Presidency issued the piece in a statement on Wednesday titled \u2018Senior U.S. Republican mocks attempt to impeach President Buhari.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Anuzis blamed the United States Senate for setting a poor precedent by impeaching Former President Donald Trump twice and criminalising him through the January 6 proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>This led to the raiding of Trump\u2019s palatial Florida residence by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday. This move has supercharged the polarising political debate around the heap of judicial investigations facing the former president as he mulls another run for the White House in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anuzis, \u201cSince the Democrats started going after Mr. Trump in the name of democracy, around the globe copycat impeachments have been popping up in dozens of countries. From Malta to Peru and South Africa to Nigeria, suddenly democratically elected leaders the world over are being challenged, not by the voters, but their rival politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, the job of opposition leaders is to hold those in power to account. To help them do their job we have structures \u2014 committees to challenge and question, with powers of subpoena \u2014 and much more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not opposition politicians\u2019 job to remove democratically elected leaders from office. That\u2019s for the voters. And when politicians snatch that role from them, it undermines democracy itself.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the recent events in the U.S. gave legitimacy and international attention to \u201cthis unscrupulous and underhanded political tactic.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Nigerian presidency, he said, responded predictably to the threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt called on the opposition to collaborate with the government more closely on tackling the same security issues that form the basis of their complaint, rather than resorting to theatrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the damage was already done. The headline-grabbing stunt achieved what was intended: allowing left-wing international broadcasters such as CNN and BBC to naively report the impeachment attempt \u2014 without bothering to understand or cover the underhand reasons behind it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While noting that Nigeria faces serious security challenges that have worsened under the pandemic and global cost of living crisis, the Republican politician argued that the Buhari regime had made significant inroads in tackling the threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica has sadly replaced the Middle East as the global breeding ground of Islamist terrorism. African governments and their stretched security forces are on the frontlines of battling this scourge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith many of these violent groups linked to global networks of terror, this is a threat that could extend well beyond the borders of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose African governments that are giving their all to fight this threat need and deserve all the support we can give,\u201d Anuzis noted.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that as leaders of the free world, US politicians must think carefully about their actions as they influence politicians in democracies globally, particularly newer democracies in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we play dirty politics at the expense of democracy, those democracies that look to us will follow suit. 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