You can’t impeach Buhari – US politician, Anuzis tells Nigeria senate

United States Republican Politician, Saul Anuzis, has said it is not within the power of the national assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari.

Anuzis said the power to remove Buhari from power lies with the electorates who elected him.

Anuzis, a former Michigan Republican Party Chairman, stated this in an article published in the Washington Times on Tuesday titled ‘America’s newest export: Impeachment Proceedings.’

However, the Presidency issued the piece in a statement on Wednesday titled ‘Senior U.S. Republican mocks attempt to impeach President Buhari.’

According to Anuzis, “Since the Democrats started going after Mr. Trump in the name of democracy, around the globe copycat impeachments have been popping up in dozens of countries. From Malta to Peru and South Africa to Nigeria, suddenly democratically elected leaders the world over are being challenged, not by the voters, but their rival politicians.

“Sure, the job of opposition leaders is to hold those in power to account. To help them do their job we have structures — committees to challenge and question, with powers of subpoena — and much more.

“But it’s not opposition politicians’ job to remove democratically elected leaders from office. That’s for the voters. And when politicians snatch that role from them, it undermines democracy itself.

“It called on the opposition to collaborate with the government more closely on tackling the same security issues that form the basis of their complaint, rather than resorting to theatrics.

“But the damage was already done. The headline-grabbing stunt achieved what was intended: allowing left-wing international broadcasters such as CNN and BBC to naively report the impeachment attempt — without bothering to understand or cover the underhand reasons behind it,” he said.