Insecurity: Resign now or be sacked by President Buhari

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Insecurity: Resign now or be sacked by President Buhari- House of Representatives tell Service chiefs






Members of the House of Representatives today passed a vote of no confidence on all the service chiefs, asking them to either resign their positions immediately or be sacked by President Buhari.
 
The lawmakers made the call during its plenary in Abuja today January 29th.
 
While debating on the nation’s rising insecurity, a member of the House, Abubakar Fulata, informed his colleagues that the service chiefs had outlived their usefulness and that it will be to the detriment of the country if these men keep doing the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result in tackling the security challenges Nigeria is grappling with.
 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, thereafter put the question to the lawmakers whether the service chiefs should resign and leave their offices or be sacked. Although there was a divide among the members in their response, majority of the lawmakers answered in the affirmative and the resolution was passed.
 
The service chiefs include the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Naval Staff, and the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar. They were appointed in July 2015. 

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SENATOR ABARIBE’S CALL ON PRESIDENT BUHARI TO RESIGN IS FOOLISH

The Presidency has described as foolish the call by Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as Nigeria’s president.

Senior Special Assistant to the President Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a statement further described the lawmaker as an arm chair critic, known for making stray comments.

According to him, a man who like Abaribe who unlocked the door to enable the escape of traitorous and treasonable suspects, should be the one to resign.

Shehu asked: “President Buhari to resign on what basis?

“Just because some characters think that President Buhari should resign, then they expect him to quit? That call does not represent the opinion of the country. This is the opinion of an arm chair critic, known for making stray comments.

“If a leader like President Buhari needs to resign, there are millions of other Nigerians who need to resign, including Senator Abaribe who unlocked the door to enable the escape of traitorous and treasonable suspects.

“He signed the bond for the court to release Nnamdi Kanu on bail, from which moment the suspect disappeared into the thin air. Senator Abaribe has failed repeated deadlines to return Kanu to the court for trial, yet he has the effrontery with which to accuse someone of failing to the bidding of the law.

This is a man who should have replaced the suspects he failed to produce in the correctional facility.

“Abaribe’s party raped the nation and left it collapsing in 2015 and President Buhari is fixing things up all the years he is in office.

“President Buhari is working hard to keep Nigeria and Nigerians out of the harm terrorists have unleashed in the entire Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa with the support of Nigerians and our foreign friends; he is going to finish off these terrorists. He alone can do it.”

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/presidency-replies-abaribe-you-are-foolish-for-asking-buhari-to-resign/

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Abaribe's call for Buhari to resign wasn't necessary even though insecurity in the northeast is getting worse - Senator Ndume






The Senator representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume has struck out Senate's Minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe's call for President Buhari to resign over insecurity across the country even though he admitted that the security situation in the northeast is getting worse. 
 
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army who appeared on Channels TV's "Sunday Politics", said there is resurgence of the insurgency in the northeast as he recalled the killings and violence recorded in his senatorial district. 
 
Ndume disclosed that the insurgents recently launched an attack on Askira and Damboa Local Government Areas of Borno state, killing some people and also carting away foodstuff and other valuables. The Nigerian troops countered the attack, but it left people scampering away for safety. 
 
He said; 
 

“The situation in the Northeast particularly Borno State is terrible. I can tell you that the situation is getting worse. There is a resurgence of the insurgency in the northeast.
“From the report I received, two people were killed in Damboa Local Government. Two people were also killed in Gumsuri, Damboa Local Government.
“In Askira, people scampered into the bush for safety. I have not gotten the true assessment of the situation or report on the lives lost.”

 
Also recounting how two bombs were detonated in a mosque in Gwoza and last week’s attack on Muno near Maiduguri, Ndume said the attacks are coming when people had a sigh of relief that the spate of attacks had reduced.
 
The All Progressives Congress Senator who called on President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to wake up regarding its constitutional duty of saving lives and property, however stated that Abaribe's call for the President to resign wasn't neccessary.