By Asare Asare The Senator representing Cross River Southern Senatorial District, Gershom Bassey has confirmed that the impeachment ...
By Asare Asare
The Senator representing Cross River Southern Senatorial
District, Gershom Bassey has confirmed that the impeachment plot against
President Muhammadu Buhari is real.
In an interview with journalists in Calabar yesterday,
Bassey said, however, emphasis should not yet be on the impeachment, which is
the second part of the notice to the President.
He said they want to impress on the President to act swiftly
within six weeks, which is the first part of their threat.
“I think the media somehow has missed the point of our
action. The point is to ensure safety and security in our country. It is not
impeachment yet, but to ensure safety and security in Nigeria. That’s why we
have given 6-week threshold within which we want the executive, particularly Mr
President, to do something about security in our country.
“Our best hope is that the President will respond to what we
are saying, to what we are doing. And at the end of six weeks, everything would
have been sorted out.
“It is the part one that should be the focus, not so much
part two. Part two happens when we fail to achieve part one.
“In other words, if there’s continued insecurity without the
type of response that we expect within these weeks, then we move to part two,
which is impeachment process proper, which is real.
“We are serious about the impeachment, but we will only get
there if part one which is the actions against the situation in our country
does not improve,” he disclosed.
The Senator, who lost out during the PDP gubernatorial
primaries in the State, wondered why up till now victims of the Abuja-Kaduna
train attack were still being held, whereas nobody had been arrested or held
accountable for what happened in Kuje prison..
He bemoaned the fact that the President had been unable to
take action to show that he’s in tandem with the people.
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