The People’s Democratic Party Caucus in the House of
Representatives have called for President Mohammadu Buhari’s resignation.
The Caucus said, Nigeria, under the rulership of President
Buhari, has been seized by hostage-takers-bandits and terrorists who extract
ransom demands on the poor, impoverished citizens and turn homesteads, hamlets,
villages, towns and cities into killing fields.
In a statement signed by the leader of the Caucus,
Representative, Kingsley Chinda (PDP Rivers State), said the bloodletting
unleashed by the hostage-takers, which has gone unabated, with the President
showing complete incapacity to arrest the situation, or bring the killer squads
to book is spreading across every acreage of citizens’ habitation
The statement said the carnage was turning the once quiet
and peaceful homesteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities into funeral
parlours and cemeteries.
The lawmaker said, “Everywhere we turn, today, our dead are
either being prepared for burials by families whose hearts are torn up by
grief, or they are being mourned by families who can’t tell where the corpses
of their loved ones are or where the killer squads will turn up next.
“Here is the stark truth of the Nigerian condition under
Buhari’s ruinous rule: citizens are in a prolonged, severe and intense state of
mourning that has kept them stuck in acute anguish, pain and trauma.”
“In his recent remark at the sidelines of the COP-26 conference
in Scotland, United Kingdom, General Buhari boasted.
“We will defeat them, one highway, one rail link- and one
job- at a time. It is over three weeks since the Conference ended, no stone of
resistance has been mobilized by the General against bandits, terrorists and
kidnappers.”
But the caucus maintained that bandits, terrorists and
kidnappers have continued to unleash their reign of terror on helpless
citizens, taking not “one highway, one rail link – and one job – at a time” but
whole communities and regions in fell swoops whenever they choose to strike.
“The communities of Sabon Birni of Sokoto State, Kagara of
Niger State, Karim Lamido of Taraba State, Katoge and Yanturaku of Katsina
State, and of the north east, north west, south south and south east are
witnesses to the reigns of terror,” they said.
Chinda said ”The caucus is saddened that unfortunately, the
President who famously boasted of leading from the front is now missing in
action.
“General Buhari is concerned only about his personal and
family safety, and the safety of his lackeys.”
“Typical of rulers in history who suffered from messianic
complexes, he thinks his personal survival is tantamount to the survival of the
nation.
“It is this delusion that makes the governance of our
country dire and costly under his rulership. There’s something more ruinous
about his delusion: he promotes himself beyond his talent of statecraft.
“Like Caligula, the delusional Roman emperor in history, who
ordered that ships be lined up in a double anchor to form a bridge, so he could
ride his horses across the gulf of Baiae to prove the prophecy of Thrasyllus
the astrologer wrong that he had no chance of emerging as an emperor “than
riding over the gulf of Baiae with horses”, General Buhari is deploying scarce
state resources against peaceful protesters who are calling attention to the
killings in the North to prove that he is an emperor,” the caucus said.
On the issue of the Electoral act amendment bill the caucus
expressed concerns that in the past one month Nigerians have waited on Buhari
to give assent to the Electoral Reform Bill passed to him by the National
Assembly.
“As was postulated in several quarters, he has declined
assent to the same, using the cost of direct primaries as a decoy. The untold
reason for declining, is to avoid the electronic transmission of results which
will improve the credibility of the electoral system.
“This refusal, though contemplated, has left Nigerians
confounded by a President who continues to show utter disdain for the
Constitution and the reform of the institutions of state. Under him, our
institutions of state have regressed, to the point that the gains of previous
institutions reforms, embarked by Our Great Party while in power, have been
either lost to his inaction or to his deliberate ploy to leave our country
worse than he met it. On this point alone, we are not convinced that he is
interested in the reform of the Electoral process.
“A ruling party that cannot conduct its national convention
lacks the capacity to implement some of the innovative and people-empowering provisions
of the Bill, like the Direct Party Primaries and electronic transmission of
results from the units. As an opposition caucus, we will ensure that our
members exercise their power under Section 58(5) of the Constitution to veto
the President whenever the National Assembly deems fit to table the issue for
discussion.
“Finally, we make bold to remind General Buhari of the
saying of that old Greek General, Chabrias the Athenian that “an army of sheep
led by a lion is more feared than an army of lions led by a sheep”. But, our
nation and its people don’t have the luxury of time to wait on General Buhari
to transform from the intrepid General who is currently missing in action to
the lion that leads from the front, when bandits, terrorists and kidnappers who
have seized our nation by the scruff of the neck are inflicting malevolence on
the nation and imposing informal rules on citizens to command obedience to
their dictates.
“Time is running out. General Buhari should save our country
by waking up from his long slumber or RESIGN NOW.”
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