Hon Muhammadu Kazaure warns National Assembly that there will be war if they impeach Buhari

JIGAWA State member of the House of Representatives Hon Muhammadu Kazaure has warned his colleagues that there will be war in Nigeria if they decided to proceed with plans to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.

Over recent months, the relationship between the executive and the National Assembly has deteriorated badly, with the leaders of both houses even having their security details withdrawn at one stage. Unhappy with the approach of President Buhari to several matters, Legislators have read a bill calling for his impeachment, which has exacerbated the tension further.

On Tuesday this week, a joint executive session of the both chambers of the National Assembly agreed on a document which gave the president 12 conditions to urgently address or face the invocation of the powers of the legislature. At a news conference shortly after the ultimatum to the president by the lawmakers, however, Hon Kazaure said that he would not be part of such decision.

Hon Kazaure said: "Nobody will impeach the president as far as we are alive in this House because that day, it will be a war day. I am sure the president will take serious action and the whole thing will stop."

He added that there were senators and members of the house who would not support such move and urged President Buhari to intervene in the matter in the interest of the country and the All Progressive Congress (APC). According to Hon Kazaure, with increase in oil prices, the focus of the government now should be on how to give Nigerians better welfare packages.

Furthermore Hon Kazaure said that he was not in support of President Buhari allowing some people to create problems for him by frustrating those who had helped the party to win the 2015 elections. he added that it was disheartening that the people who had worked with the president from 2003 till date have been sidelined.

Hon Kazaure called on the president to reconcile all the differences among the politicians. At Tuesday's joint session attended by senate president senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives, lawmakers who had, in their respective chambers, lamented their alleged victimisation by security and anti-corruption agents, agreed on a common resolution.