A member of the National Assembly,
Senator Isah Misau, has said that the National Assembly has no plans
whatsoever to commence impeachment proceedings against President
Muhammadu Buhari.....
The Senator representing Bauchi Central
in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday in apparent response to
insinuation made by former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
in Uyo on Wednesday that the National Assembly was planning to impeach
President Buhari urged Nigerians to disregard such unjustifiable talk by
the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He described Tinubu’s assertion as “a
mere partisan rethoric aimed at catching the attention of the crowd at
the rally planned for the formal defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio
into the party.”
Senator Misau who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Navy
expressed surprise that a politician of Tinubu’s caliber will be playing
politics with a serious issue like the impeachment of the President of
the country just because he wanted to catch the attention of a crowd,
adding that politicians at his level should not be engaging in
unnecessary saber-rattling and empty speculation.
According to him, “we, members of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate, have no plan to impeach
President Muhammadu Buhari as there is no need for that process and we
are not contemplating it.”
Our focus right now , he further said, is to defend democracy and its
institutions, fight for enthronement of rule of law, independence of the
legislature and the judiciary and ensuring good governance.
“If Tinubu has any concrete, reliable and verifiable evidence to the
contrary, he should come forward and prove it. A man like him should not
be getting carried away by the crowd and making claims that have no
basis.
“We therefore urge all Nigerians and members of the international
community to ignore that claim. There is no basis for anybody to make
such claim. It is a mere fabrication and a stunt pulled to please the
partisan crowd to which it was uttered”, Misau further said.
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