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Wole Soyinka Tags Buhari A Failure Over Insecurity, Supports His Impeachment For Breaching Democracy

Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has backed the six weeks ultimatum given to President Muhammadu Buhari by members of the Senate and House of Representatives to find a solution to the terrorism ravaging the country or be impeached.

Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State during an interactive session organised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Abeokuta Club, Professor Soyinka condemned a situation in Nigeria where a failure, who has occupied a seat of government for eight years, would “give us another failure for another eight years.”

The six weeks ultimatum was handed down last week over the lingering insecurity in Nigeria.

Soyinka, who was the session’s moderator, insisted that President Buhari should be impeached because he had breached the contract of democracy.

The event was attended among others by Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, had as its theme: “Good governance or mis-governance: The contract called democracy.”

According to Soyinka: “Democracy indicates a contract, that is why the candidate puts on a manifesto. On the basis of that manifesto, the candidate is either accepted or rejected.

“Very often, the grounds for breach of contract, I think we all agree, is mis-governance and one of the ways of breaking this kind of contract we know even before the duration of a contract is known as impeachment.

“The reason we will go by some legislators to impeach the President who is the head of government. In fact, one cleric has gone even further. He believes that the impeachment should take place not in the legislative home, but in the bush with the kidnappers and he appealed to the kidnappers to quicken the process by impeaching the President and taking him away and some of his aides and one or two Governors.

“Many of us in this country, including Governors, including chairmen of local governments, what comprehension they have of this process called democracy, because what these Governors are telling us is that after a failure has occupied a seat of government for eight years, that failure should give us another failure for another eight years.”

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