Senators staged a walkout calling for Buhari’s impeachment

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Wednesday, witnessed a walkout by some senators on the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, after he allegedly refused the Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, from leading the motion on the impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Aduda and some other senators of the PDP walked out of the plenary chanting a solidarity song.

Our source gathered that the lawmakers were displeased with the worsening security situation in the country that had threatened to impeach the President.

As the plenary commenced on Tuesday, the lawmakers sought to know from the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, why the issue of insecurity was not in the Order Paper.

Irritated by the proceedings, the Senate Minority leader raised a point of order, calling for deliberation on issues discussed at the closed-door session.

He said, “Mr. President, I raised this point of order to bring to the front burner issues deliberated upon at the closed-door session.

“Resolution made by all senators at the closed-door session which lasted for two hours was to further deliberate on it in plenary and arrive at a resolution to give President Buhari ultimatum on an urgent basis to stop the worsening security situation or face impeachment.”

The Senate President, however, quickly interrupted Aduda, ruling out his point of order on the grounds that he was not carried along before bringing it up for discussion.

Aduda then asked Lawan to proceed with items on the Order Paper.

In a response to the development, all senators across the opposition parties, led by the Minority Leader, Philip Tanimu Aduda, stormed out of the chamber chanting, “All we are saying, Buhari must go, Nigeria must survive, Ahmad Lawan should follow.”

The protesting senators, including Adamu Bulkachuwa (All Progressives Congress – Bauchi North), later gathered at the Senate Press Centre to disclose what transpired during the closed-door session.

The Minority Leader, Philip Aduda, spoke on behalf of the senators, saying their anger was aggravated because the Senate President refused to follow the resolutions they (the Senator) took across party lines at the closed-door session.

He said, “We are here to tell Nigerians that as senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we are disappointed with the way the worsening security situation across the country is being handled.

“We held a closed-door session for two hours, where it was resolved that the issue will be deliberated upon in plenary with an agreed resolution to give President Muhamnadu Buhari six weeks to address it or face impeachment by both chambers of the National Assembly.”

Aduda added, “Our walking out of the chamber is to express our disappointment in the way the matter was later handled by the Senate President.

“President Buhari has been given all he wanted in terms of adequate funding of the security agencies but nothing to show for it. He needs to shape up or ship out.”

Aside from all the PDP senators who participated in the walkout, other senators like Enyinnaya Abaribe (All Progressives Grand Alliance -Abia South), Ibrahim Shekarau ( New Nigeria Peoples Party – Kano Central), Francis Onyewuchi (Imo East), etc., also joined.

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