By Abraham Olatunbosun
Angered by the dire security situation in Nigeria, Senators across party lines have given President Muhammadu Buhari six weeks to end the scourge or face impeachment.
This followed attempts by the senators to have the matter discussed in the chambers, but were severally blocked by the Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan.
Further angered by Lawan’s blocking of the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Phillip Aduda’s move to have the matter discuss via a point of order, the Minority Leader then led his colleagues to the Senate Press Centre where he told journalists that Buhari would be shown the way out if he failed to tackle insecurity within the next six weeks.
Aduda said, “We agreed at the closed session that we should discuss the issue of insecurity in the country but the President of the Senate frustrated our efforts to discuss it at plenary.
“We noted at the closed session as the minority Caucus in the Senate, that the many resolutions passed on insecurity should be implemented.
“At the closed session we agreed that we must give the President an ultimatum that if he failed to comply with our resolutions on how to tackle insecurity within six weeks, we would move an impeachment proceedings against him.
“We expected the Senate President to brief the public on what we discussed at the closed session but he did not. He also ruled out our point of order to discuss it.”
