2016 budget controversy: PDP asks NASS to impeach Buhari

National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the National Assembly to commence impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari for what it called “various constitutional breaches especially the submission of two versions of the 2006 budget.”
Senate President, Bukola Saraki after receiving the report of the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on investigations surrounding 2016 Appropriation Bill, accused Senator Ita Enang, senior special adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters of submitting a different version of the budget, different from what Buhari presented before a joint session of the National Assembly on December 22, 2015.
The PDP, in a statement signed by its acting National Chairman, Uche Secondus and made available to newsmen last night called on the National Assembly “to investigate the shameful act, including the distortion and bandying of figures to accommodate personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions are meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body.”
The party further demanded the resignation of the Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning, as it noted that they had “ failed to provide the much needed capacity in the management of the nation’s economy resulting in the embarrassing crashing of the nation’s currency to as low as N305 to a dollar.
“We sympathise with Nigerians who are seriously undergoing terrible hardship because of the now obvious inept leadership of APC despite the promise of one naira to a dollar.
“What hope can a government that allows its currency to break a 43 year-old record crashing to over N300 to one dollar offer and, yet, does not show it has clear focus of what to do.”
The main opposition party declared that the APC government, rather than address very grievous national issues created by its lack of capacity to govern, has, instead, resorted to violation of people’s rights in the name of fighting corruption.

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