A federal lawmaker on Thursday said the National Assembly will move to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari if the President fails to act on its security resolutions.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday inaugurated a 40-man committee to find a resolution to the security challenges confronting the country. These included the insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West, secessionist agitations in the South-East, and Fulani Herdsmen crisis across the Middle-Belt and the South-West States.
The Committee will be holding a four-day security summit in May.
Dachung Bagos, who is a lawmaker representing Jos South/Jos East Federal Constituency, said the impeachment process, will be initiated if the resolutions of the summit are not acted upon by the Executive.
“If the Executive had implemented 30 percent of the resolution and advice the National Assembly has been giving, I can assure you we couldn’t have reached this level,” Bagos said while appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Thursday.
He added that the Executive has politicized the security issue in the country.
He described the summit as a lasting resort.
“After this summit, if nothing is done – brainstorming, spending resources to bring out solutions – if the Executive does not do anything after some months, then definitely we will call for the resignation of the President,” he said.
“We have the power to impeach the President if he can no longer secure the lives and properties of Nigerians.”
Bagos is also the Deputy Chairman, Anti-Corruption Committee, and member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives.
However, impeaching the President may be an unrealistic move as both the House of Representatives and the Senate were controlled by the ruling All Progressive Congress.
Bagos is a member of the People’s Democratic Party, the leading opposition party
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