Former Kaduna State Governor Balarabe Musa said on Monday
that the House of Representatives had yet to advance enough and convincing
reasons for threatening to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Musa made the remark in Lagos while reacting to the threats by the
lawmakers to impeach the President when it reconvenes.
The House is schduled
to reconvene on Tuesday (today) after a two-month recess.
He said, “There
should be fundamental reasons for the president to be impeached.
“The reasons the lawmakers are giving, low-level of budget
implementation and body language of the President, are unacceptable.
“The lawmakers did not say non-implementation of the budget.
The body language reason cannot be defined.”
Musa said he would not support the impeachment, warning that
impeaching Jonathan would not change anything, but would rather
make things worse for the country.
The elder
statesman advised the members of the
lower chamber to come up with more
convincing reasons that would make the public to believe in them.
Musa cautioned the
lawmakers against making the impeachment threat look like a move aimed at
bargaining for more resources.
The Chairman of the
Conference of Nigerian Political Parties
said the national awards had been cheapened, insisting that they should
be for exceptional and not just distinguished Nigerians.
He said, “I support the plan by the National Assembly to
amend the law from honouring distinguished Nigerians, to honouring only those
who have done exceptional things outside the capability of vast majority of
other Nigerians.”
Musa said there was the need for the Federal Government to
withdraw honours given to those who had behaved dishonourably after receiving
such honours.
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