Those Threatening President With Impeachment, Chaos Are Anarchists, Adesina, Says Buhari To Hold Security Meeting Thursday

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Senior Special Adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has described those threatening President Muhammadu Buhari with impeachment or chaos which could be more than the last EndSars crisis as anarchists.

Adesina, who appeared on Channels Television program, Politics Today, on Wednesday, was referring to the minority caucus in senate, who staged a walkout at the plennary for refusal of the senate president to let them have their way in impeachment proceeding against Buhari as well as some senior citizens, who threatened crisis more that the EndSars crisis should the president fails to resign.

Speaking further, he said,

“Minority have a say, majority have their way. Just bravado and security not supposed to be bravado. Wasting time, wasting mass time.

Minority Senators playing to gallary.

National Assembly members and senior lawyers calling for Presidents resignation are anarchists.

But barely 48 hours after the Presidential Brigade of Guards came under attack by terrorists; President Buhari has summoned the Service Chiefs to an emergency security meeting which will hold on Thursday, according to Adesina.

However, Senator Abaribe Eyinnaya, former minority leader believes the whole crisis the country is facing now is as a result of incompetence on the part of the president.

Noting that security meetings are no longer new, just as there are not effective, Eyinnaya pointed out that he had warned the country about the incapability of the Buhari since 2016 and 2017, and he advised him then to resign, but the country did not take him serious.

“How many security meetings have we had and anytime something like this happens, security meetings are called.

Since many incidents, and up to the last Kuje prison attack, how many people have been punished or sacked on the account of incompetence or dereliction of duties, nobody, and how do you think people will sit up,?“ Eyinnaya said.

But Adesina believes that in a democracy, the minority can have a say, but the majority must have their way.

However, the senators from the opposition parties have issued a six-week ultimatum to the President to tackle the security challenges bedeviling the country.

Briefing reporters after plenary on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Phillip Aduda, also threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against the President should he fail to address the insecurity within the period given by the lawmakers.

However, the presidential spokesman was of the opinion that the opposition lawmakers were merely playing to the gallery, adding that there is not much they will do after the drama which played out in the Upper Chamber.

Downplaying the impeachment threat, he said: “I think it was just bravado, and sadly, security is not something you subject to bravado.

“You don’t begin to issue flippant ultimatums in something that is a matter of life and death,” Adesina asserted.

He further averred that “those who spoke today are the minority of minorities, they will have their say as is needful in a democracy but it will not go beyond that.”

However, the presidential spokesman admitted that gunshots were heard in the area, but one shouldn’t conclude that the shots heard were from the terrorists.

Despite playing down the security issues, Adesina said,
“tomorrow the President has summoned another security meeting with the heads of the security agencies.”

Metrobusinessnews.com reports that troops of the 7 Guards Brigade which provides security for the Presidential Villa and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were ambushed in the late hours of Monday while on patrol along the Kubwa-Bwari Road in the nation’s capital.

The situation, which led to the death of three soldiers, forced the authorities to close down academic institutions in the FCT.

Those expected to attend the meeting include the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major Gen. Babagana Monguno, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Farouk Yahaya, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao.
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Others scheduled for the meeting are the Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Bichi and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.