Leke Baiyewu, Abuja

More members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Representatives have faulted the threat by the leadership of the House to sanction the leader of the PDP caucus, Mr Kingsley Chinda, over his call for the impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Chinda had urged Nigerians to prevail on the National Assembly to begin the impeachment process against Buhari over the killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram and the abduction of over 340 schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State.

But the Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, had in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Monday, threatened Chinda with sanctions by the House if the PDP leader continued to call for Buhari’s impeachment.

A member from Rivers State, Mr Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, however, stated that Chinda had not committed any offence by speaking for his constituents and other Nigerians as their representative.

Abiante dismissed the threat as “a lack of understanding of the responsibilities of a legislative arm of government,” adding that it exposed the “lack of depth.”

Responding to a question on whether members of the PDP caucus were out to defend Chinda, Abiante said, “Does the House have the power to send a member elected by the people of a constituency out of legislative functions? The answer is no. If in the past, people have been so barred, my people elected me to be in the House and I speak on their behalf. Nobody has the right to take me out.”

Chinda had, in his reaction to Ado-Doguwa’s threat, said he was ready to face the consequence of the impeachment calls. “I’m prepared,” he had told our correspondent.

The PDP leader had added in part, “You should ask if it would be fair to Nigerians. I speak for Nigerians. They should ask Nigerians to stop the call for the removal of President. I have the backing of the majority of Nigerians.”

Another PDP member, Farah Dagogo, representing Degema /Bonny Federal Constituency in Rivers State, had also chided Ado-Doguwa for “playing to the gallery.”
Dagogo said the Majority Leader, who was also a legislator in the defunct Third Republic, “ought to be experienced enough to know that Kingsley Chinda did not commit any legislative infraction with his patriotic call.”

The lawmaker described the alleged claim by Ado-Doguwa that the President failed to honour the invitation of the House because of Chinda as “not only ludicrous but has only exposed the leadership of the House to hypocrisy.”

Also, a prominent member of the PDP caucus, Mr Tajudeen Yusuf, had dismissed Ado-Doguwa’s threat as “part of the sycophancy that is killing Nigerian democracy,” adding that the “wishful thinking antagonises the rising concern of Nigeria citizens.”

According to Yusuf, some All Progressives Congress bigwigs’ “nasty” sycophancy is “one of Nigeria’s biggest silent problems and their unending, unthinking and non-critical ‘yes sir’ syndrome is a silent killer of democratic ethos.”

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Only an enemy of peace and the masses will go against this impeachment move.

We should synergise to deliver our beloved country from a leader who will sit and watch terrorists, bandits and kidnappers destroying the lives of innocent citizens.

It is a bizarre that government spokespersons are those defending cruelties and criminalities by bandits in the north west.

They start issuing press statement to justify the reasons why the bandits and terrorists struck.

#ImpeachBuhariNow
#BuhariIsIncompetent
##SilentIsNoMoreGolden

You are all mad

Banana Republic
Buhari have already pocket the legislative and judicial branch of government in his babanriga

Buhari is a disaster

United corrupt people... But APC shouldn't be angry for the call of impeachment, they did far worse before they get to power.


Even Bubu personally called for impeachment, not knowing he will as well be an advanced disaster waiting to come (Reasonable people actually know this)

Crazy people

Just negodu some lawmakers!
Ever ready to lick Buhari's blokos to be in his good books!
Tueh!

wished dis shithole got burnt to the ground during dat endsars revolution. Spit

Am still waiting for the time our politicians Will start killing each other. That day

Just look at

The house should welcome the idea. The President is grossly incompetent.

All these elected senators and house of rep members need to be recalled out of office in 2021. Start collecting signatures to issue a recall of all your elected officials from the president down to the lowest level which is your local government chairman. Don't waste your time to go out to the streets to protest, use that energy to call for signatures to issue a recall order.

Okay, I won't be shocked if it happens that bag of money has gone round!


What else remains as a surprise to Nigerians in this administration

Nothing

Voting Buhari into power in 2015 was a Great mistake by Nigerians but rigging him into power the second time is nothing but STUPIDITY on the part of Nigerians.

I've got nothing to say

plastic leadership, rubber stamp house of rep......

Voting Buhari into power in 2015 was a Great mistake by Nigerians but rigging him into power the second time is nothing but STUPIDITY on the part of Nigerians.

This country is gradually degenerating into Somalia. The so called rulers always live in the fear of opposition thereby trying everything to subdue them at all cost. They want the citizens to always obey with no objections at all. Like someone said earlier on; revolution is looming and nothing can change it.

Buhari is long due for impeachment.

Naijboy:
Voting Buhari into power in 2015 was a Great mistake by Nigerians but rigging him into power the second time is nothing but STUPIDITY on the part of Nigerians.

Let me add this: ''And failing to recall him out of power is mumuism''

I must commend tajudeen Yusuf for the fact he mentioned, the biggest problem of Nigeria is this APC because majority of them knew that buhari failed in govern the country but hypocrite is the right word for them. They also failed the constituency they represent due to their yes sir syndrome they attribute on the floor of green chamber. I must say this Nigeria can never get it right if we practise democrazy like this we have long way to go.

Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, knows Buhari alone isn't the problem


Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, alone has 27 children and 4 wives...

North keeps making babies with no means of proper training so they end up being a major trouble to their society

Blaming only Buhari won't solve the problem


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Is he unimpeachable?