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Impeachment threat: PDP senators are confused, says Garba Shehu

The Presidency has told the opposition senators who gave President Muhammadu Buhari six weeks ultimatum to either address the rising insecurity in the country or…

The Presidency has told the opposition senators who gave President Muhammadu Buhari six weeks ultimatum to either address the rising insecurity in the country or face impeachment that nobody asked them to do so.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba, in a statement, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators who were determined to be in the headlines were “divided” and “confused”.

He likened their action to an attempt to undermine Nigerian voters, saying Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s refusal to entertain the “ridiculous motion” to impeach the President was “quite appropriate and correct.”

He described the action of senators who staged a walk out as “performative and babyish antics”.

The presidential spokesman said the Buhari administration was committed to finding lasting solutions to the emerging security threats, including those left behind by the PDP in the South-South, the Northeast and throughout the federation.

He said in the last 24 hours, two more Chibok girls were freed, in addition to the three brought home last week.

He said: “We would welcome their collaboration in our efforts to solve the problems Nigerians face on a daily basis. No one is asking them to waste their time attempting to impeach a democratically elected President at the end of his second term – certainly not their constituents.

“They should ask themselves: do they want to be in government or do they want to be in the headlines? If they want to be in government they should start acting like it and stop undermining Nigerian voters.

“Rather than making a mockery out of voters by trying to imitate what they see in America, the opposition would be well advised that their time would be better spent tackling the pressing issues Nigerians face, such as the current global cost of living crisis. Their continued failure to do so goes some way to explaining why they remain in opposition.

“These kinds of headline grabbing stunts for which the opposition is now well known serve no one, least of all their constituents. We would respectfully remind them that it is those same constituents that they were elected to serve, and are paid to do so with public money.”

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