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  • Updated: January 29, 2020

Sen. Abaribe Asks For The Resignation Of 'This Govt.'

Sen. Abaribe Asks For The Resignation Of 'This Govt.'

Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, asks that the president, Muhammadu Buhari, resigns in the face of incessant insecurity besieging the country.

Mr. Abaribe's ask comes after the president expressed his "surprise" over the state of insecurity in Nigeria. Abaribe also claimed that those who have been put in charge of protecting the lives of Nigerians would, instead of carry out their duties "preferred to cover the eyes of Nigerians with propaganda and trying to find all these excuses for non-performance."

“Mr president was expressing surprise but in according to our rules order 53 (13) I will not go into that but I can only say in pidgin English ‘this surprise, surprise me’,” the Senator said.

“You have told us that in this solemn day in discussing this matter that we may not at any point be partisan, I want to say Mr. president if you didn’t insist that we will not be partisan I’d have called out the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, who, when the CAN leaders complained about the killings of a priest, he turned around and said CAN was acting like a political party.

“Boko Haram has been defeated, Nigeria is now safer, everything that was being done to make sure that the hard work that was supposed to be done in securing Nigeria was not done because certain people did not do their work but preferred to cover the eyes of Nigerians with propaganda and trying to find all these excuses for non-performance have now come to stare us in the face.

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“Mr president, Nigeria did not elect the IGP, we did not elect the chief of staff, we did not elect the joint-chiefs or national security adviser, we elected the government of APC in 2015 and re-elected them in 2019. The reason we re-elected them is that they continued to tell us that they had the key to security.

“When you want to deal with a matter, you go to the head, so we will go to government and ask this government to resign because they can no longer do anything.”

In response, cutting off the speech of the senator, the president of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, said that Nigerians re-elected the ruling party because they “saw improvement in their lives.”

“I don’t want to be partisan and I advice against hate speech,” Lawan said.

But Abaribe in concluding his speech on the issue, said: “That government even said if we don’t perform stone us, we are going with the stones to stone them now.”

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