Missing Budget: PDP Wants Buhari Impeached

**Advises Finance, Budget Ministers, CBN Governor To Resign
A call has been made to the National Assembly to start the process to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.

This was made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after its National Working Committee, NWC, rose from a meeting held on Thursday in Abuja.

The opposition party wants the President removed from office following controversy trailing the alleged missing 2016 national budget put at N6.08 trillion and also “various constitutional breaches.”

PDP, in a statement issued on Thursday by its Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, urged the National Assembly to “thoroughly investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and banding of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions is meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body.”

Also, “the Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning” were asked “to resign having failed to provide the much needed capacity in the management of the nation’s economy resulting in the embarrassing crashing of the nation’s currency to as low as N305 to a dollar.”

The party “asked the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to resign for plunging the country’s currency policy into chaos an action that thrown investors into total confusion” and “admonished the government to stop pretending that it knows what to do when feelers from the seat of power shows clearly that Nigerians by voting for APC have just discovered they boarded a once chance bus.”

It further said, “We sympathize with Nigerians who are seriously undergoing terrible hardship because of the now obvious inept leadership of APC despite the promise of one Naira to a dollar.

“What hope can a government that allows its currency to break a 43 year old record crashing to over N300 to one dollar offer and yet does not show it has clear focus of what to do.”

PDP said rather than address very grievous national issues created by its lack of capacity to govern, the APC administration has resorted to violation of people’s rights in the name of fighting corruption.

They noted in particular the continued detention of its Spokesperson, Olisa Metuh for nearly 10 days is a clear breach of his fundamental human rights and reiterates its earlier call on the anti graft body to release him unconditionally with immediate effect

In conclusion, the party called on all lovers of democracy especially the international community to note the fact that rule of law and respect for citizens’ rights, essential ingredients of civil liberty have taken flight in Nigeria under President Buhari’s watch.