Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe’s call on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to protect Nigerians is reverberating across the country.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the Abia South senator said, “Nigerians did not elect the Inspector General of Police. We did not elect the Chief of Staff. We did not elect the service chiefs. We did not elect the National Security Adviser.
“We elected the government of the APC in 2015 and reelected them in 2019. The reason we reelected them was that they continued to tell us they had a key to security.
“When you want to deal with a matter, you go with the head, so we will go with the government and ask this government to resign because they can no longer do anything.
“Yes, the Nigerians voted a government into power and that government even said, ‘if we don’t perform, stone us, we are going with the stones to stone them now because they are no longer performing.”
Although the Buhari presidency has described the call as “foolish” and baseless, many Nigerians who took to social media on Wednesday and Thursday morning said that the call was justified.
Many Nigerians who weighed in on the matter also berated Senate President Ahmed Lawan for describing criticism of the Buhari administration as hate speech.
Read comments monitored on Twitter:
Buhari should resign and give way to competent hand. We can’t continue recording killings like this everyday.#MrUnaware #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/wkS6EORQDZ
— c h r i s t y n (@kessyl) January 30, 2020
I expect Buhari and APC to go after Sen Abaribe for giving us valid reasons the president should resign…
However it only makes sense for this #BuhariResign campaign to trend because this is definitely not the Nigeria of our dreams. Worsening insecurity, poverty etc !
— Dr Emmanuel (@DoctorEmto) January 30, 2020
We need more people like Senator Alaribe in this country.
He used the government's words against them.
This government said if they didn't perform we should stone them.. That is what we should do!!! #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/w420Q57MFF
— Gemma💋🌹 (@Gem_mahh) January 30, 2020
Buhari has failed.
Some illiterates, blindfolded, ass kissers would not agree.
The primary responsibility of any govt is safety, and because he claimed he has key to security, Nigerians voted him in 2015.
Five years after, Nigerians are still being killed daily.#BuhariResign
— Tosin Olugbenga (@TosinOlugbenga) January 30, 2020
Since the emergence of Ahmed Lawal as Senate President,the whole NASS has become the executive rubber stamp.
Reason why he was warning Senator Abaribe against hate speech when he expressed the mind of most Nigerians calling on the govt headed by Buhari to resign.#BuhariResign
— Tosin Olugbenga (@TosinOlugbenga) January 30, 2020
Sir I think you already know what to do. Don't shy away from the truth, be a gentle military man. #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/7cwG6HZs5M
— COLOURS (@Mike_Colours) January 30, 2020
Buhari, you have committed a lot of fouls. Get out!!!!#BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/TiKVPtspvJ
— Epaphras (@_Epaphras) January 29, 2020
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