The Presidency has lashed out at Abia senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, after the lawmaker said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to protect Nigerians and should resign.
Abaribe spoke on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, as senators discussed rampant insecurity in the country. “Those who live by propaganda will die by propaganda,” the senator said in his scathing remarks.
Senator Abaribe said "This government said if they didn't perform Nigerians should stone, so we are ready to stone this govt….Those who live by propaganda must die by propaganda"
So he called on the govt headed by @MBuhari to resign. #BuhariResignpic.twitter.com/D1N6Yp3ta4
— Tosin Olugbenga (@TosinOlugbenga) January 30, 2020
Several senators called for the resignation of service chiefs, but Abaribe said the man who appointed them should also go.
The senator wondered why the president would claim to be surprised at the rising insecurity in the country.
“If you want to treat an issue, you go to the head. We did not appoint the IG or the security chiefs. We will go to the president and ask him to resign,” the lawmaker said.
Ahmad Lawan, the senate president, interrupted the lawmaker and asked him to focus on how to tackle insecurity.
“Nigerians voted APC because they promised to tackle insecurity but they have failed…,” Abaribe, a member of the opposition PDP, continued.
In a response late Wednesday, January 29, 2020, the Presidency said the call for Buhari to step down was “foolish”.
It added, however, that should he leave, “there are millions of other Nigerians who need to resign, including Senator Abaribe who unlocked the door to enable the escape of traitorous and treasonable suspects.”
SENATOR ABARIBE’S CALL ON PRESIDENT BUHARI TO RESIGN IS FOOLISH
President Buhari to resign on what basis? Just because some characters think that President Buhari should resign, then they expect him to quit. That call does not represent the opinion of the country.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 29, 2020
Shehu Garba’s Full Twitter Tirade
Just because some characters think that President Buhari should resign, then they expect him to quit. That call does not represent the opinion of the country. This is the opinion of an armchair critic, known for making stray comments.
If a leader like President Buhari needs to resign, there are millions of other Nigerians who need to resign, including Senator Abaribe who unlocked the door to enable the escape of traitorous and treasonable suspects.
He signed the bond for the court to release Nnamdi Kanu on bail, from which moment the suspect disappeared into the thin air.
Abaribe has failed repeated deadlines to return Kanu to the court for trial, yet he has the effrontery with which to accuse someone of failing to the bidding of the law.
This is a man who should have replaced the suspects he failed to produce in the correctional facility.
Abaribe’s party raped the nation and left it collapsing in 2015 and President Buhari is fixing things up all the years he is in office.
President Buhari is working hard to keep Nigeria and Nigerians out of the harm terrorists have unleashed in the entire Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa with the support of Nigerians and our foreign friends, he is going to finish off these terrorists. He alone can do it.
#BuhariResign
Shehu’s statement inspired a hashtag in which Nigerians expressed their disappointment with the president for the many failures of the government.
Here's the pool
Should Buhari resign— THC 🍃 (@ESEII_) January 29, 2020
If you can't find solutions to bandits, Boko Haram attacks it is better to resign. President Buhari should resign if he cannot fight insecurity which is one of what he swore over and undertook as the C-in-C… After all he once called on GEJ to resign to #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/HLAI83LYip
— Emma ik Umeh (Tcee )🇳🇬 (@emmaikumeh) January 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/YoungOtutu/status/1222771960867889153
“If insurgency lasts for more than 24 hours, the Government has a hand in it.” – Late General Sani Abacha #BuhariResign https://t.co/rEZRsu9NVf
— Ohimai Amaize (@MrFixNigeria) January 30, 2020
On 29/01/2020, in his response to #BuhariResign @GarShehu tweeted that I jumped bail and disappeared ”into the thin air.” WRONG!
Nigerian Army invaded my home to assassinate me, read my story and join the heated discussion on the Independent’s website:https://t.co/xoKSTcNeNL
— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) January 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/M_Abba_/status/1222672833609969668
N19,800 was $100 during GEJ Era, at least before Buhari & the APC hapoened!
Today they announced the N33,000 for NYSC which is ONLY $91 as diversion from Senator Abaribe’s ‘Truth’ for #BuhariResign
Now factor inflation into the N33,000 ($91) & tell me what it can afford today?
— NEFERTITII (@firstladyship) January 29, 2020
Buhari has failed in all his campaign promises, only if he was a man of integrity, he would have just resigned but no he won’t, his ambition has always been power that he doesn’t know what to do with. #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/EqeMaUdVsa
— ONYEDIKACHUKWU ANAMBRA (@OnyedikaAnambra) January 30, 2020
Even @Elrufai endorses the resignation of a failed president. @MBuhari what are you waiting for???#BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/iNL0jx26qx
— #TooBlessed (@Nelly21417) January 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/EmekaGift/status/1222786001262841856
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 !
— Royalty (@_iRoyalty_) January 30, 2020
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
He said in 2015 that Goodluck Jonathan was incompetent. But today he is both INCOMPETENT and IMPOTENT. #BuhariResign pic.twitter.com/NZ8zdn6yNq
— Epaphras (@_Epaphras) January 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/onos_147/status/1222764247106621440
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✨ (@Amaka__Gemma) 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
