President Muhammadu Buhari Vs. $496m Tucano Aircraft

Fresh trouble looms for the president of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari .

The news has it that some members of the National Assembly have allegedly started collecting signatures for his impeachment over the withdrawal of funds (to the tune of $496m) from the national treasury for the purchase of the Tucano Aircraft from the United States Government without the legislative approval. 

This they said is a slap on their faces, an illegality.  ‘Signatures for the impeachment of Mr President are being collected in both chambers of the national assembly’ – a source in the National Assembly stormily said.

Recall that last year (precisely September, 2017), a congress delegation met with the leadership of the national assembly sequel toTrump’s request to sell the aircraft to Nigeria Mr President in his dictator style of leadership, failed to seek approval from the National Assembly whose sole duty it is to either approve it or jettison it.

Hon. Chinda (from the House of Representatives) stated: “There is nowhere in our law that talked about anticipatory approval. We cannot sit down and allow this to take place. It is an impeachable offence. There is no infraction that is worse than this. Let us not continue to sleep. I propose that we commence the impeachment of Mr President.”

The section 143 of the 1999 constitution (as amended) clearly stated that for a president of the Federal Republic Nigeria (and his vice), to be removed from office, one-third of members of both houses the national assembly MUST append their signatures.

Senator Abu Ibrahim, (APC senator, Katsina state), described it as a conspiracy from PDP.