Senators of the opposition parties on Wednesday, gave President Muhammadu Buhari six weeks to address the rising insecurity in the country or be ready to face impeachment.
The senators told reporters that “Buhari must go and Lawan should follow.”
The opposition senators stormed out of the senate chamber during plenary to protest the worsening insecurity across the country.
The senators staged a walkout, following the out of order ruling on a point of order raised by Minority leader Philip Aduda (PDP-FCT ) to discuss insecurity in Nigeria.
Trouble started when the Senate Minority Leader raised a point of order for the Red Chamber to deliberate on issues raised at the closed-door session, which lasted for two hours.
The Senate President Ahmad Lawan had, after the executive session, announced that issues relating to workings of the senate and unity of Nigeria were discussed and asked the senate leaders to proceed with the items listed on the Order Paper.
Aduda had raised a point of order to draw the attention of the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, to bring to the public discussions on issues of insecurity at a closed session that lasted two hours.
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Lawan, however, intercepted, saying that it was against the senate rule to bring up any matters of such without his prior consultation.
Lawan, thereafter ruled the minority leader out of order.Irked by the ruling, the opposition senators stormed out of plenary, chanting songs that called for President Buhari to quit.
Aduda who addressed a news conference in the company of other opposition lawmakers, said: “We went through a closed session to discuss issues as it relates to security in this country, especially the happenings in Abuja and happenings all over the country.
“We agree that the primary responsibility of government is the protection of lives and property of citizens .
“And for us the minority caucus in the senate, we took into cognisance the fact that the senate had at various levels, at various times, convened various security meetings, issues were discussed.
“We did recommend to the government various steps and measures aimed at curbing these issues of insecurity.
“We realise that even Abuja that we are in is longer safe.
“At the closed session, we agreed that we will give the president an ultimatum to comply.
“This is what we agreed to in the closed session. So when we came out of the closed door session, we expected that the Senate President would brief the public on the issue that happened.
“However that did not happen, so we have come here in protest to brief you and to let you know that we are with Nigerians in this struggle.
“And that we are worried that nowhere is safe in Nigeria and as such, we have worked out of the chamber in protest that the security situation is deteriorating and that urgent steps need to be completely taken to ensure that these issues are curbed immediately.”