Insecurity: National Assembly’s action against Buhari overdue – Gov Ortom

Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue State, praised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the National Assembly on Friday for giving President Muhammadu Buhari a six-week deadline to address the nation’s security issues or risk being impeached.

Due to the escalating unrest in Nigeria, the minority caucus in the Senate and House of Representatives vowed to impeach the president last week.
The minority senators left the National Assembly premises on Wednesday after Ahmed Lawan, the Senate President, rejected their request to start an impeachment process against President Buhari.

The lawmakers chanted “Buhari must go” as they walked out of the complex.

On Thursday, their House of Representatives counterpart promised to gather signatures for the president’s impeachment if the terrorists continue to pillage communities in the country at the end of the six weeks ultimatum.

The governor, according to a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Nath Ikyur, spoke when the Senate Minority Leader, Phillip Aduda, led a delegation of several National Assembly members to the Government House in Makurdi.

Ortom praised the Senators, saying their action was overdue.

The governor also commended members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had chosen to do the “right thing” and described the move by PDP lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives to impeach the president as “patriotic.”

He insisted that Buhari has fallen well short of Nigerians’ expectations with his handling of the country’s security and economic problems.