President Muhammadu Buhari faces impeachment if it is confirmed that he is incapacitated. This was revealed by a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District between 2003 and 2017, Senator Ibrahim Tsauri.
In a recent interview, Tsauri noted 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, it does not matter how long the president stays out of the country as far as he transmitted power to the Vice President.
However, he could still be impeached on one ground - if it is confirmed that he cannot perform his function as the president anymore and is incapacitated.
He said,
“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.”
Source
Daily Sun
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