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The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately resign because he has failed to surmount the security challenges in the country.
He insisted that Buhari and the APC had told Nigerians to stone them if they fail and that “it is now time to pick stones to stone them” in view of their obvious failure.
Abaribe said the Nigerian population voted Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) because they assured the citizenry that they had the key to security.
He said the Buhari and APC led administration has failed woefully because instead of securing Iives, it engages in propaganda and cheap politics rather than realistically dealing with the issue of insecurity.
Abaribe stated this on Wednesday while contributing to the motion to urgently restructure, review and organise the current security architecture in the country.
The Senate has stepped down all other legislative activities to discuss insecurity in the country. The lawmakers are concerned that people are being killed unreasonably.
Abaribe said: “We did not vote the IG of police, we did not vote the Chief of Staff or other security chiefs, we voted the government of APC in 2015 and re-elected them in 2019 because they told us they have the key to security.
“Today, the APC government has failed because people are being killed anyhow. If you want to deal with a matter, you first go to the head. We can go to the APC government and ask this government to resign.
“And we want to tell the government that if it does not resign, we shall have no option than to go with stones to pursue it,” Abaribe stated
Meanwhile, the Senate President Ahmad Lawan called on Abaribe and all those who are going to make contributions to the debate to be apolitical.
He said that bandits and Boko Haram insurgents do not operate on partisan grounds when they kill citizens.
In his contribution, Senator Abudullahi Adamu, faulted the Senate President for not calling on Abaribe to withdraw his comments.
Lawan had on Tuesday promised that the Senate would dedicate its plenary on Wednesday to debate the worsening security situation in the country and proffer a way forward.
Senate Majority Leader, Senator Yahaya Abudullahi, raised the motion titled: “Nigerian security challenges: Urgent need to restructure, review and reorganize the current security architecture.”
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The motion was supported by 105 other Senators.
Abdullahi, in his lead debate, called on his colleagues to note the recent upsurge of security related challenges and the devastating loss of lives, limbs and properties that it unleashed on the nation.
He further urged the Senate to note the comprehensive new National Security Strategy that the government unfolded in December, 2019, “with its very clear statement of goals, objectives and challenges that faced the nation particularly those challenges whose recent upsurge have a direct and devastating impact on the lives and safety of the people.”