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March Thur Yar Adua Should Be Impeached(pre Buhari 2010 Trowback by exwag: 5:01pm On Feb 10, 2017 |
On March 9, 2010,
something
happened which
given the state of
Nigeria right now,
can best be
described as the
mother of all
ironies.
Late Yar'adua and
Goodluck Jonathan
The Nigerian
president in that year
was Umar Musa
Yar'Adua and he had
been sick and away
from the country for
a while. The then vice
president, Goodluck
Jonathan, was made
the acting president
and the entire
country was
confused about the
exact state of
Yar'Adua's health.
Then an opposition
leader, General
Muhammadu Buhari
(rtd.), joined the
growing number of
Nigerians to call for
the removal of
President Umaru
Musa Yar'Adua.
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According to the This
Day article dated
March 9, 2010,
President Buhari
maintained that the
only viable option out
of the present
political logjam in the
country was for the
Executive Council of
the Federation
(EXCOF) to declare
the president
incapacitated and
have him
impeached .
Buhari, in 2010, said
Nigeria should not
have been in the
situation it was in
the first instance
because the
constitution had
made it clear on how
an ailing president
could be succeeded.
Insisting on
Yar'Adua's
impeachment, he
said the refusal of
the council to follow
constitutional
provisions with
regards to the illness
of the then president
had thrown Nigeria
into crisis and he
argued that the 1999
Constitution was
clear on the issue of
succession when an
incumbent president
is incapacitated.
Buhari, who is the
president now, said
all this when he
received members of
the National Unity
Forum in Kaduna who
paid him a solidarity
visit.
Goodluck Jonathan
was not spared, as
the former military
ruler criticized what
he described as
"extra-constitutional
measures", the
measures applied by
the National
Assembly to
empower Goodluck
Jonathan as the
acting president
when the
constitution already
had a solution to the
problem.
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Below were his
words from March
2010:
"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.”
Looking back at 2010,
from 2017, it is
indeed ironical that |
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