Impeach Yar'Adua now - Buhari (Exactly 7 years ago)
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Karma is a bitch.
Today makes it exactly 7 years since General Muhammadu Buhari (as he then was) made this cold and calous statement, as published in a national daily (not Urhokpota Reporters), against then ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua because he was ill and indisposed.
Yar'Adua was ill but was honest about it. He didn't call his illness medical vacation or annual leave, he simply said he was ill.
Buhari 'ordered' the National Assembly to impeach Yar'Adua simply because he had his eyes on on the presidency.
Buhari's statement was devoid of milk of human kindness, emotion or feelings for the family of Yar'Adua, for Nigerians, for Muslims and even for Christians who didn't pray for Yar'Adua to die because they loved him even though Yar'Adua was a Muslim, unlike today.
So, Babachir should be informed that some Nigerian Christians who he alleged are wishing death for the president isn't about hate for Muslims but about their negative perception of this government and the man at the helm of affairs. Vice President Osinbajo has had the refreshing candour to add his voice to clarify that alleged wish when he rightly said that Nigerians have lost faith in "all organs of government".
Seven years ago, the victim was Yar'Adua. The mocker was Buhari. Seven years, like seven days. Today, the same man who asked Nigerians to impeach their president because he was ill is now himself both ill and missing for nearly 50 days.
If most Nigerians forget, Urhokpota Reporters won't. We have unearthed the old report by a sister newspaper and wish to reproduce it to refresh our memories.
Below is what General Buhari said on March 9, 2010 when Yar'Adua was sick. So when we ask for ask for the impeachment of Buhari we are in order.
Vanguard Newspaper
"Impeach Yar’Adua Now - Buhari
(March 10, 2010)
A former Head of State, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Executive Council of the Federation to declare Nigeria’s ailing President, Musa Yar’Adua incapacitated and begin the process of his impeachment.
The former military head of state said the refusal of the council to follow constitutional provisions with regards to Yar’Adua’s illness has thrown the oil rich nation into its present crisis, arguing that the 1999 Constitution was clear on the issue of succession when an incumbent president is incapacitated.
Buhari made the declaration when he received members of the National Unity Forum in Kaduna who paid him a solidarity visit. He criticized what he described as "extra-constitutional measures", the measures applied by the National Assembly to empower Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President when the constitution already had a solution to the problem.
"Political expediency won't remedy this kind of problem because if the Executive Council of the Federation had acted in accordance with the constitution, by invoking the necessary sections to declare the President incapacitated, we would not have found ourselves in this present situation.
"As you can see, adopting extra-constitutional measures have not addressed the problem. If it had, we would not have been subjected to the raging debates and controversy going on. So, we must go back to the constitution. The Executive Council of the Federation must do the right thing because once we start moving away from the constitution, then we are inviting anarchy,” Buhari added.
While speaking on electoral reforms, Buhari urged Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to make it top priority, adding that unless free and fair elections are conducted next year, the polity and country would not be stabilized.
"Look at what happened in Anambra. Voters’ list went missing and a lot of people were denied the right to vote in the election. If INEC cannot organize credible poll in one state, how can they do it in 36 states and the FCT?" Buhari queried.
Nigerian President Musa Yar’Adua has not been seen in public since November 23rd 2009 and his true state of health has been a subject of national discourse."
Based on the above premise, on behalf of Nigerians, Urhokpota Reporters hereby move for the replacement of the president due to ill health and manifest incapacity.
According to Buhari himself, he said, in similar circumstances "we must go back to the constitution. The Executive Council of the Federation must do the right thing (invoking the necessary sections to declare the President incapacitated)"
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