Nigeria's National Assembly mulls Buhari's impeachment

NASS under pressure to impeach  Buhari over constitutional breaches and budget scandal

The major opposition party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday asked the National Assembly to commence the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari for what it called 'various constitutional breaches' on an alleged submission of two versions of the 2006 budget. 

The Acting National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, in a statement he personally signed, after a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), also said that appropriate sanctions should be meted to whoever had a hand in the alleged ‘distortion and banding of figures to accommodate personal interest’.

The Chairman asked the Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning to resign for allegedly failing to provide the capacity in the management of the nation's economy, resulting in the crashing of the nation's currency to as low as N305 to a dollar. The party also called for the resignation of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for allegedly plunging the country's currency policy into ‘chaos’.

-The Summary