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PDP backs Reps call for Buhari’s impeachment

PDP backs Reps call for Buhari’s impeachment

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the call by its caucus in the House of Representatives, asking Nigerians to direct their representatives, across party lines, to commence the impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari is constitutional and democratic.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the call was a direct reflection of the mood and desires of the Nigerian people.

It said the call was justified by the President’s manifest failure in all spheres of governance and particularly in failing to provide effective leadership that could guarantee the security of the nation and rescues the economy.

The statement said, “As a party, the PDP had always called on our federal legislators in the House of Representatives and the Senate, irrespective of political affiliations, to stand on the side of the people by deploying the legislative instruments provided in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to rescue the ship of state.

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“The Buhari administration had already accepted failure as reflected in the declaration by one of its officials, that the nation is now at the mercy of bandits and terrorists, a development that signals that it has outlived its usefulness.

“President Buhari is elected by the people; his stay in office is also dependent on the people as vested on them by the Constitution, through their elected representatives in the National Assembly.

“The PDP, therefore, urges Nigerians to eschew all primordial sentiments and stand for the nation at this critical time.”