Nigerian
senator, Ibrahim Tsauri says President Buhari can stay as long as he likes
outside the shores of the country if he has legally transferred power to the
vice president to act in acting capacity.
Senator
Ibrahim Tsauri who is a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has
given the ground on which President Buhari could be impeached.
The senator
who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District between 2003 and 2017 said
the president could be impeached if he is confirmed incapacitated, according to
The Sun.
He said
that: “The constitution says that if the President is certified incapacitated,
he can be impeached whether he decides to resign or not.”
According to
him, the president can stay on vacation as long as he likes provided he has
transmitted power to the Vice President.
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 added.
(Information
Nigeria)
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