Buhari’s Impeachment Is Not An Option; The Cabal Is Not Our Executive Arm -By Jeff Okoroafor

Jeff Okoroafor

According to the tick counter on Opinion Nigeria’s website, President Muhammadu Buhari has been away on medical vacation for 133 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes and 52 seconds. So out of 731 days counting from May 29 2015, he has only spent 598 days in office, as President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Arm Forces. He has been unable to efficiently and effectively discharge his duty with the proactiveness and decisiveness needed, and as a result of that, Nigeria’s economy has taken a nose dive into a ditch, insecurity and violence taken a more advanced twist, power supply continue to dwindle and hunger grows in the land with a very deep wound of suffering inflicted on the people…how else can one boldly define “incapacitation”?

The die is cast and the time is ripe for the Legislatures to salvage our country from the impending plague that has started its reign over the people of Nigeria. President Buhari is laudable for his will to rid the country of the stench of ardent corruption. The will power has been tested and proven to a reputable pedigree. The war against corruption has received appraisal and applause from within and across the shores of the country.

Buhari has done quite well to saddle the country thus far amidst health and economic challenges. The persistency of the president on a seat he can physically not handle with his short fall in health is causing Nigeria a respiratory asphyxia. The country is evidently not under the control of the president we collectively elected. A regime of political terrorists, under the guise of a cabal, is concealed within the rank and files of government, working ‘chemeleonically’ to undermine the country’s sovereignty.

Nigerians are abashed with suffering and the evidence is open to every eyes. The cries of the masses has reached presidency and came back to our faces with callous disregard from those who are supposedly the voice of the government. Our relevance has been jilted and left a mockery in the heat of our profession for democracy; and they are flaunting the rule of law as if the law was made specifically for the masses alone.

I recount the ten plagues in the Egypt of the Biblical days; every single plague came to fulfilment because someone in authority was unyielding to let the people go out of bondage, for self-glorifying projections. Nigeria is under intensive hunger, people are dying of acute diseased conditions, and nothing obviously seem to be working. We are not smiling economically and more youths have discovered passion for suicide.

The political arena is at its peak, charged with stimuli for responsible decisions to be made for the good of Nigeria. This country is not for an individual, a group of persons or a section of the country. The Vice president has been tasked to stand for the president in acting capacity with a very low morale to carryout major functions. We understand the complexities of his role and the caustious desire to abstain from executing certain functions that seem to some people, ambitious and surpassing the boundaries of the cabals who are now expressly the executive arm of the present regime.

The National assembly has a duty to salvage this country from dictatorship and avert the atmosphere of the tenth plague. God and heavens are no longer watching, critical conditions of sufferings always open the heavens for celestial intervention. I am calling on Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara to without hesitation move for the impeachment of President Buhari on the grounds of ill-health as enshrined in section 144 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and proceed with section 145 to transfer full functional powers to the Vice President.

We cannot keep denying the obvious. We may have good intention for the president by empathy over his health and inability to saddle the responsibility of his office. But it will be brutal gullibility to find weakness in the senate making an impeachment move at this point in time. History will not remember the strength of solidarity that we play in politicking. But, history will reward even our children over the courage to be strong for the people and weak for political gains.

This day marks the beginning of freedom from the repressive hands of internal colonialism and “cabalocracy”. Let our National Assembly Save Our Soul, save Nigerians and Save a Nigerian in the person of the president from the Cabal he has lost control over by virtue of the prevailing health.