All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to the call by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The PDP attacked the president Thursday after the senate accused the presidency of altering the 2016 budget.
Senate president, Bukola Saraki, stated that a copy of the budget received from the president was different from what his aide, Ita Enang, distributed to its members.
Lawmakers had earlier said that the original document was missing.
In a statement Thursday, PDP requested that the National Assembly should impeach the president, and called for the resignation of the finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, and budget and national planning minister, Udo Udoma.
The party also demanded the resignation of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
APC dismissed the call as “comical”.
“It is confusing and worrisome that the PDP calls for an investigation into the budget issue and at the same time calls for the removal and resignation of the aforementioned,” the party said in a statement by its national secretary, Mala Buni.
In both content and context, PDP’s statement is a distraction to the National Assembly.
The party said it was certain that the 8th National Assembly can’t be distracted by the PDP in its new desperate plot to divert attention from the investigation going on into mind-boggling cases of corruption that is done under its defunct 16-year rule.
