UPP chairman, Okorie says threat to impeach Buhari is satanic, dangerous

The United Progressives Party, UPP, has described the threat by the senate to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari as “satanic, subversive and dangerous,” stressing that the lawmakers should rather concentrate on the business of law-making.

National Chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie, in a statement he personally signed on Friday called on the lawmakers to stop blackmailing the President in a bid to arm twist the Executive arm of government to obtain some form of soft landing for its principal officers currently being prosecuted for forgery of the Senate standing rules.

According to Okorie, the senators if aggrieved with the prosecution of its presiding officers, should subject themselves to the judicial process rather than issue impeachment threats.

Okorie said:

“Our attention has been drawn to some threats emanating from some persons in the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari for unspecified impeachable offences.

“We wish to state unequivocally that such thoughts at this point in time are satanic, subversive and dangerous. It should be erased completely from the minds of those contemplating such move.

“Any such act of vengeance will be most unpopular, unpatriotic and condemnable. All hands must be on deck to salvage our country from its present state of economic downturn, excruciating poverty and security challenges.

“In the spirit of separation of powers as clearly defined in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended, it behoves the National Assembly and its leadership to submit themselves to the judicial process with regard to the on-going trial of some top Officers of the Senate on forgery accusation.

“It must not be seen that the National Assembly is resorting to the blackmail of the Executive arm of government in order to achieve any form of soft-landing for its Officers who are already facing trial.”