Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign immediately.
Secondus, who was reacting to the 12-point resolution adopted by the National Assembly, on Tuesday, said it is obvious the Buhari administration has collapsed.
He urged the National Assembly to invoke the necessary section of the constitution against the president if he fails to resign.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ike Abonyi, the PDP chairman said the position of the National Assembly represents the views of a cross section of Nigerians and should be respected.
Secondus added that although the position of the legislature is a bit late, as so much damage has already been done to the country, the lawmakers still deserve commendation for rising up in defence of democracy and rule of law.
He said: “Evidence abound globally, that, by parliamentary powers, the resolution of the National Assembly means that the people have lost confidence in the president and he should quit.
“We, in the opposition, have been saying it, interminably, that this government has no direction and does not mean well for the country.
“History is a witness that when a government is bereft of ideas and still wants to cling on to power, it resorts to use of force, intimidation and harassment of opponents, a quality we have seen very blatantly in this regime.
“The legislature and the judiciary are the two main arms of any democratic government all over the World, but, this administration has deliberately made the operations of the two very tasking in the last three years.
“How do you explain the assault on the country’s Senate, by an ostensibly Executive backed hoodlums, who not only disrupted proceedings, but, abducted the mace, the symbol of parliamentary authority, the framing up of the Senate President and some of his vocal colleagues in an armed robbery and other related criminal cases, or the forceful infiltration of homes of justices and judges at the wee hours of the night with arms by operatives of a supposedly democratic administration.”