How Buhari can be constitutionally impeached– Senator Ibrahim

Senator Ibrahim Tsauri

Senator Ibrahim Tsauri has tried to educate Nigerians on how to impeach impeach a President constitutionally due to his long absence from work.

Senator Ibrahim Tsauri says President Buhari can afford to spend his time outside the shores of Nigeria the way he wants, as long as he has legally transferred his responsibilities to the vice president to act in acting capacity.

Accorsing to the sun, Senator Ibrahim Tsauri, a core figure in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District between 2003 and 2017, given a good stance on which President Buhari could be shown the exit door.

President Muhammadu Buhari

He noted that the president could be impeached if he has been verified and declared incapacitated.

He said that: “The constitution says that if the President is certified incapacitated, he can be impeached whether he decides to resign or not.”

Senator Ibrahim said the president can stay on vacation as long as he wants provided he has transmitted power to the Vice President, to act on his behalf.

“The constitution is there and it clarifies it. If the President leaves the country for anything, he transmits power to the Vice President and Buhari did that and met all the conditions.

“The President is out of the country on sick leave and he did what the constitution says he should do. We do not need to bother ourselves about how long the President stays outside the country as long as he transmitted power to the next in command.

“That is why you do not even call him Vice President now, you call him Acting President.

“But the certification of that incapacitation has to be done by his executive council. If the executive council certifies that the President can no longer perform the functions of a president, which means he is incapacitated,” he explained.