Impeached US President Donald Trump and Nigerian President Buhari during a past meeting
Just imagine how an ordinary House
of Representatives of America impeached the most powerful man on earth (the
President of a whole United States of America) yesterday with relative ease?
Impeached for doing what?
Are these Americans not mad people?!
What is President Trumps offence
compared to what is happening in Nigeria?....
Did he spend $1 billion on imaginary
arms procurement among others without NASS appropriations as specified in the
operating Constitution?
Did it take President Trump over six
months to name his cabinet?
Did he open his countrys borders to
illegal immigrants herdsmen terrorists to invade indigenous ancestral homes and
lands; and maim, rape, kidnap and kill the citizens?
Did he go on medical tourism abroad
for undisclosed ailment at an undisclosed very great public expense and
remained there beyond the constitutionally allowed period?
Did he shield his close associates
like his Chief of Staff, Ahmed Forces Service Chiefs and so on from
investigation and prosecution on corruption charges?
Did he travel abroad on private
visits without informing the NASS and without handing over to his Vice
President?
Did he sign a bill of NASS into law
in a foreign land while on a private visit there in contravention to the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of his country?
Did he secretly pay millions of
dollars in ransom from the national coffers to Boko Haram terrorists for
partial release of kidnapped school children and others?
Did he pardon and recruit captured
terrorists into American army and armed forces?
Did he appointment over 99% of the Service
Chiefs of the armed forces and paramilitary establishments from his kinsmen?
Did he ever go abroad to condemn his
countrymen and the youths of his own country?
Did President Trump's teenage son
who has never worked and legitimately earned any income all his life travel on
medical tourism in Chartered flights at government expense?
Did Trump decline to sign electoral
bill into law three consecutive times only to pave way to rig himself back into
office?
Did he remove the Chief Justice of
his country unconstitutionally?
Did President Trumps Attorney
General drop corruption charges at very advanced stage in the court to pave way
for his preferred candidate to emerge as the Senate President?
Did Trump appoint people standing
trial for corruption charges in the courts into his cabinet?
Did Trump breach the Constitutional
provisions of Federal Character by appointing mainly his kinsmen into key
government positions?
Did Trump retain his Armed Forces Service
Chiefs far beyond their statutory tenure without the approval of the NASS?
Did he illegally retain an EFCCs
Chairman in office in acting capacity for more than four years despite the
disapproval of the Senate that is Constitutional authorised to approve such
appointments?
Did he falsely prosecute a serving
Senate President in an inferior Court even without any apology after the Supreme
Court exonerated the victim?
Did Trump borrow more money for
unverifiable purposes in just three years, far much more than the total amount
borrowed by previous Administrations put together in the last twenty years?
The list of these great achievements
of this Major-General Muhammadu Buharis regime is unending!....
Please, feel absolutely free to add
yours.
So, going by the aforementioned, are
these American not mad people?
Whither the National Assembly?!
Whither Nigeria?!!
Prof. Echefuna R. G. ONYEBEADI writes from Abuja.
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