Impeach Yar’Adua Now - Buhari
PHOTO: GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
San Francisco March 09, (THEWILL) A former Head of State, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Executive Council of the Federation to declare Nigeria’s ailing President, Musa Yar’Adua incapacitated and begin the process of his impeachment.
The former military head of state said the refusal of the council to follow constitutional provisions with regards to Yar’Adua’s illness has thrown the oil rich nation into its present crisis, arguing that the 1999 Constitution was clear on the issue of succession when an incumbent president is incapacitated.
Buhari made the declaration when he received members of the National Unity Forum in Kaduna who paid him a solidarity visit. He criticized what he described as "extra-constitutional measures", the measures applied by the National Assembly to empower Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President when the constitution already had a solution to the problem.
"Political expediency won't remedy this kind of problem because if the Executive Council of the Federation had acted in accordance with the constitution, by invoking the necessary sections to declare the President incapacitated, we would not have found ourselves in this present situation.
"As you can see, adopting extra-constitutional measures have not addressed the problem. If it had, we would not have been subjected to the raging debates and controversy going on. So, we must go back to the constitution. The Executive Council of the Federation must do the right thing because once we start moving away from the constitution, then we are inviting anarchy,” Buhari added.
While speaking on electoral reforms, Buhari urged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to make it top priority, adding that unless free and fair elections are conducted next year, the polity and country would not be stabilized.
"Look at what happened in Anambra. Voters’ list went missing and a lot of people were denied the right to vote in the election. If INEC cannot organize credible poll in one state, how can they do it in 36 states and the FCT?" Buhari queried.
Nigerian President Musa Yar’Adua has not been seen in public since November 23rd 2009 and his true state of health has been a subject of national discourse.
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Honestly, the 1999 constitution must be applied, it has the clearance we need to clean all these MESS!
May GOD Almighty Bless Nigeria.
On the constitutional solution to the current impasse; the answer is in the constitution. The Fed Exec Council must immediately and without further delay declare Yar'Adua incapacitated, impeach him and install Mr Jonathan as president. Anything short of this, Mr Goodluck Jonathan will continue to look over his shoulder and be ineffective.
Courage, honourable ministers, courage. Remember, 'the valiant tastes of death but once, but cowards die many times before their death' Courage then, courage!
Where is Sharia?Sorry,Shagari? What is his opinion?
And you sit with your imbecility and a caricature fingers and type this few but nonsensical words about a man whose volition has settled for truth. It is a pity that the new found nomenclatures are finding its index in our political and economic dynamics, where everything, even books and water has been politicized. It is high time we sit things straight and provide for our timid youths which i fall into the principle of providence and necessity of sustenance. Only when we look from this direction is there going to be one true federalism in Nigeria, otherwise our Pocahontas unity and democracy will be thrown away just like that.
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