By Yemi Itodo The lawmaker representing Osun East Senatorial District at the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, Sen...
By Yemi Itodo
The lawmaker representing Osun East Senatorial District at
the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Francis
Fadahunsi, has said the 9th Senate has all it takes to impeach President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Members of the opposition parties had, during Wednesday’s
plenary, staged a walkout, after the move to serve impeachment notice on
President Buhari was resisted by some members of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC).
The impeachment move was hinged on the incessant attacks on
Nigerians by dreaded insurgents and the latest threats to overrun Abuja, the
nation’s capital.
Addressing newsmen in his office shortly after the plenary,
Senator Fadahunsi said, some APC lawmakers were in support of the impeachment
move and the remaining naysayers would join the majority when the Senate
resumes from the long vacation.
“Remember I moved this motion two years ago that this
President could offer nothing and that he should step aside. But the APC then,
floating in the Atlantic Ocean didn’t understand what I was saying. Now that
the dangerous Atlantic Ocean is sweeping them and they have overtaken even
Abuja, they are gradually seeing reasons.
“We decided at a close door session that an impeachment
notice should be passed on him, but because somebody is still busy trying to
protect his job, it was not possible.
“Today, during the executive meeting, all of us agreed, that
the man should be served an impeachment notice. Almost all the APC Senators
conceded that the man should be served, except a few.
“By the time we come back, that is, if all of us will come
back; that is, if some of us are not inflicted by the insecurity; we would all
come together, regardless of our political affiliations and ask that he should
go”, he said.
Senator Fadahunsi, who is the Vice Chairman, Senate
Committee on Customs and Trades and Investment, also lashed at Nigeria’s
security chiefs for not doing enough.
He said, “The soldiers are busy making money. The Generals
are busy acquiring houses. Some of them do not even know what to do with the
money, some of them are building universities and hotels.
“Each time we invite them, they always complain of a
shortage of funds and we would always approve money for them. So, they have now
acquired much money.
“All the people causing these issues, have you heard that
anyone was arrested? The few ones arrested were also blown out of Kuje prisons
and are now causing more mayhem. These people know exactly what they are
doing”.
Stressing further, Senator Fadahunsi said, “If the man in
power is not ejected out of Aso Villa, the way things are going, this country
would slide into militocracy and the democracy we all laboured for would erode
us”.
He said, “The Commander of his Brigade Command has been
killed. About 30 soldiers under him cannot be found. If he goes and someone
comes in, the person would understand the language”, saying, Buhari’s exit
would sanitise the system.
“At a point, El-Rufai who was part of those who brought them
came out openly and confessed that the only way to eliminate them is to attack
their hideouts and kill all of them, including those who are mediating. But who
will give the order?
“So, someone that cannot give order for this clampdown
should take a leave and allow another person to come in”, Fadahunsi added.
He was optimistic that, “by the time the Senate resumes, we
shall sanitise the system and speak in one voice”.
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