{"id":33212,"date":"2020-12-07T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33212"},"modified":"2020-12-07T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:03:52","slug":"federal-lawmakers-call-for-buharis-impeachment-constitutional-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/federal-lawmakers-call-for-buharis-impeachment-constitutional-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Federal lawmaker\u2019s call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment constitutional \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday expressed its support for the call by a member of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, insisted that the lawmaker\u2019s call for Nigerians to direct their representatives in the lower legislative chamber to commence impeachment proceedings against the president was constitutional and democratic.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party, the call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment was a direct reflection of the mood of Nigerians \u201cgiven the president\u2019s failure in governance.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cAs a party, the PDP had always called on our federal legislators in the House of Representatives and the Senate, irrespective of political affiliations, to stand on the side of the people by deploying the legislative instruments provided in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to rescue the ship of state.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: House of Reps distances self from member\u2019s call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Buhari administration had already accepted failure as reflected in the declaration by one of its officials that the nation is now at the mercy of bandits and terrorists, a development that signals that it has outlived its usefulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinda had on Sunday called for Buhari\u2019s impeachment over growing insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement issued later on Sunday by its spokesman, Benjamin Kalu, the House described the lawmaker\u2019s call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment as a mere \u201copinion of a single member of the opposition party in the green chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday expressed its support for the call by a member of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s impeachment. The PDP in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, insisted that the lawmaker\u2019s call for Nigerians to direct their representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,1874,1875,254,65],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-buhari-impeachment","tag-federal-lawmaker","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal lawmaker\u2019s call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment constitutional \u2013 PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/federal-lawmakers-call-for-buharis-impeachment-constitutional-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal lawmaker\u2019s call for Buhari\u2019s impeachment constitutional \u2013 PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday expressed its support for the call by a member of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, for President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s impeachment. 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