‎Leke Baiyewu, Abuja

Some members of the Senate have asked that the process to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari be started, for failing to get the approval for the withdrawal of $496m from the Excess Crude Account to purchase military aircraft.

Senator Mathew Uroghide, who moved a motion at the plenary on Thursday, specifically urged ‎resident of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, to allow the chamber to invoke Section 143 of the Constitution.

Uroghide stated that the President had breached Section 80 of the Constitution which stipulates that all government’s spending must be appropriated by the legislature.

Also, Senator Chukwuka Utazi stated that it was time for the legislature to be decisive.

Saraki had on Wednesday read a letter from Buhari ‎in which the President disclosed that the money had been withdrawn and paid to the United States for the 12 Super Tucano aircraft, ahead of legislative approval. This, he said, was done to beat the deadline for the arms deal.

The planes will be delivered in 2020.

The President said, “Recently, approval was granted by the United States government but with a deadline, within which part payment must be made otherwise the contract relapses. In the expectation that the National Assembly will have no objection to the purchase of these highly specialised aircraft, which is critical to national security, I granted anticipatory approval for the release of $496,374,470. This was paid directly into the treasury of the United States government.

“I am therefore writing seeking approval of the Senate for the sum of $496,374,470 (equivalent to N151,394, 421,035) to be included in the 2018 Appropriation Bill which the National Assembly is currently finalising. The balance of the requirement for critical operational equipment is still being collated from the different security services and will be presented in the form of a supplementary appropriation bill in due cause.”
Senator Shehu Sani has described the expenditure as “a gross abuse of the Constitution.”

While Sani stated that he was not in support of the impeachment call, ‎he asked that the money should be refunded and the transaction started afresh to allow due process.

Senator Abu Ibrahim, however, recalled that former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and ‎Goodluck Jonathan made withdrawals from the ECA without seeking National Assembly’s approval.

Describing the impeachment as “a PDP conspiracy,” Ibrahim challenged the opposition lawmakers to name any state governor who benefited from the withdrawals from the ECA and sought the approval of the state House of Assembly before spending the money.

http://www.punchng.com/breaking-senators-call-for-buharis-impeachment-over-496m-tucano-aircraft-purchase/

I recall my government teacher then in college who told us that in the First republic while Awolowo and Zik will be busy with their parties making argument on the merit or demerit of a bill the northern members will be sleeping while Ahmadu Bello will be reciting the Quran.


When those two southerners finish speaking dogo turenchi and now a vote is to be made, the northerners will be awoken and they will all put their whole gaze on Ahmadu Bello who will just say NO to the bill and all the long long English by those two gentlemen will be invalidated because every northern lawmaker will also vote NO.




Abu Ibrahim is an example of a First Republic lawmakers

make una shuut up jor

Btw 2019 is not all about party but survival of christians
As it was written in gospel of john, "a time is coming when anyone who kill you will think he is offering a services to God (john 16; 2b)
Fear those politician that start their education with Islamic education
Cos they are commanded by the Quran to fight and kill Christians and Jews and have them subdued thats the only purpose of Muslim in politics
To fulfill their Islamic injunction not to develop the country
Sura 9: 29, 123... sura 4: 74-77
Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor the last day, nor forbid which has been forbidden by Allah and his apostle and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth(Islam) among the people of the scriptures(Jews and Christians) until they pay the jizya"
The purest joy in Islam is to kill and be killed for Allah
A day and night of jihad is better than months of fasting
Christians campaigning for muslims is just out of ignorance
Its not about party now
The killings in benue and other part of the country is only to fulfill Islamic injunction. Whether they kill you or they are killed it is a win for them
That's y you see Muslims paying lip service to the killings

I knew this impeachment was dead on arrival. You can only use the constitution to impeach a President that respects the rule of law
If Nigeria wasn't a dysfunctional country, Buhari should have been impeached since the last quarter of 2016.
If you know, you know

Every sane mind know that impeachment of President in Nigeria is a futile exercise but I'm in support of this move to shake Buhari pending when he'll be sacked in 2019