JUST IN: PRESIDENT BUHARI REACTS TO GOV. ORTOM’S IMPEACHMENT
JUST
IN: PRESIDENT BUHARI REACTS TO GOV. ORTOM’S IMPEACHMENT
The Nigerian
presidency on Tuesday said =that the claims that President Muhammadu
Buhari has a hand in the move by minority members of the Benue State House of
Assembly to remove the state governor, Samuel Ortom, is False.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Femi Adesina said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday. The
statement read;
“Even while attending the ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit
in Togo, strident attempts were being made to drag President Muhammadu Buhari
into the unfolding drama between the executive and the legislature in Benue
State.
Statements have been issued by different
interest groups, insinuating that the President may have a hand in the
development in Benue. This is paranoia at its worst, coming from people who
have wittingly positioned themselves against the clean-up of the country, and
the way we do things. They prefer business as usual.
President Buhari will never be part of any
unconstitutional act, and any attempt to link him with the inglorious past,
when minority number of lawmakers impeached governors, will not stick. It will
simply be like water off the duck’s back. Those with open minds know this, but
those who cavil would rather source everything untoward to the President. It is
murky ground in which they are now marooned, as fallout of their resistance to change in the country.
When it suits them, they preach separation of
powers and true federalism, and in another breath, they call on the President
to interfere brazenly in affairs at statelevel.
President Buhari will always stand by all that
is noble and fair, and will reject attempts to drag him
into infamy. People who stoke fires by deliberate acts of omission or
commission, and then summon the President to come and put it out will find that
this President will be guided by the Constitution at all times, no matter the
attempt to entangle him in unwarranted controversies.
