members of the National Assembly that they no longer command respect
from Nigerians which will give them the moral courage to impeach
President Goodluck Jonathan over poor implementation of the 2012
budget.
Senator Nzeribe who said he doubts if members of the House of
Representatives understood what it takes to impeach the President,
however described as an effort in futility the proposed impeachment
threat, adding that with the high level of corruption in the system,
it will not be possible for any serious-minded legislature to
successfully carry out an impeachment process, ''wind don blow their
yash open.''
Speaking during an interactive session with Journalists yesterday in
his Apo residence in Abuja, Senator Nzeribe said, ''I doubt if they
understand what they are doing. Nobody respects the average lawmaker
anymore in Nigeria. With the kind of corruption in the system, I do
not think the impeachment threat is real.
''I don't think that the House has the right to summon the President,
but there is nothing wrong with the President walking across then road
and say 'I have come to brief you'. You can't continue to threaten to
impeach the President all the time.''
The Oguta born Politician who also took on Ijaw leader and elder
statesman, Chief Edwin Clark over his last Wednesday's comments on the
activities of the Boko Haram sect, however challenged him to come up
with names of those behind them since he knows them.
According to him, the Elder Statesman, rather than cast aspersions on
some Northern leaders, he should not stop half way by raising alarm
about their sponsors, but should go beyond that.
He however condemned the measures being taken by President Jonathan
and the government in tackling the activities of agents of terror and
sundry issues, just as he urged the President to name names of those
behind the Boko Haram sect against the backdrop that he had mentioned
that they were even in his cabinet, adding that with the almost
everyday massive killings and wanton destruction of property by these
persons, the time has come for the not just saying he knows them, but
he should go after them and arrest the sect members and their
sponsors.
''I don't seem to agree with the way the President is handling the
matter. The President once said the Boko Haram people have penetrated
the government, why has he not made any arrest? We should know who
they are beyond the President telling us that they are in his
government,'' he said.
The Senator who represented Orlu Zone in the Senate during the 4th and
5th National Assembly however expressed concern about the political
developments and in his home state, Imo, stressing that the state
presently under Chief Rochas Okorocha was not only groaning under a
rudderless leadership following his activities, even as he warned that
Imo State may also sink deeper with the 'cowardice' being exhibited by
those who should ordinarily speak against the 'democratic apathy.'
Nzeribe who also expressed fears that the state may degenerate into
the Hobbesian jungle, however called on his colleagues in the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP from the state to shake off the posture of
helplessness and work towards providing purposeful leadership.
According to him, ''I have been very careful, since Rochas took power,
to say anything for or against his administration. But things are
getting worst by the day. It is a very dangerous situation we are
having in Imo State and nobody is ready to bell the cat.
''Must it take the order of the Attorney General of then Federation
for the 27 local government chairmen to be reinstated? Must the
response from Imo State to order of the court for the immediate
reinstatement of the 27 LGA chairmen be that 'since the Federal
Government refused to reinstate Salami as ordered by the NJC , Imo
State is at liberty not to obey court order? Why, for example, take
such a position on the Salami saga?
Speaking on the Justice Ayo Salami's case, Senator Nzeribe who berated
President Goodluck Jonathan for failing to heed to National Judicial
Council's recommendation that he should be reinstated as the President
of the Court of Appeal after being cleared of any wrongdoing in the
prolonged battle with former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Katsina
Alu, stressed that such flagrant abuse of the law by the President was
being copied by state governors like that of Imo State who now ignore
court orders at will.
The Senator who spoke further on Chief Edwin Clark's statement said,
"On Clark's statement that Babangida and Buhari should openly condemn
the sect, I thought Clark has a platform to say what he has in mind.
He has been the spokesman of the government for quite sometime now.
Why is he throwing the balloon in the air for it to burst? He should
tell us what he knows.
''Clark did not go the full hog. If he has fingered one or two
persons, then we would have known where he was going. ''
When asked to comment on the Bamanga Tukur led National Working
Committee of the PDP, Senator Nzeribe who acknowledged that the PDP
has not provided quality leadership at the federal, state and local
government levels, said the party was still grappling with the best
way of managing the opposition, even as he reinstated his implicit
confidence in the Bamanga Tukur to set the party on the right track.
Naija News.
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