Balarabe Blasts NASS Over Jonathan’s Impeachment Move

Elder statesman Balarabe Musa says
that the House of Representatives had yet to advance enough and convincing
reasons for wanting to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Tide’s source reports that Musa,
a former governor of Kaduna State, made the remark while reacting to the
threats by the lawmakers to impeach the President when it reconvened.

Balarabe Musa told newsmen in Lagos
that “there should be fundamental reasons for the president to be impeached”.

“The reasons the lawmakers are
giving, low-level of budget implementation and body language of the President,
are unacceptable.

“The lawmakers did not say
non-implementation of the budget. The body language reason cannot be defined,”
he said.

Musa said he would not support the
impeachment, warning that impeaching the President would not change anything,
but would rather make things worse for the country.

The former old Kaduna State helmsman
advised the members of the lower chamber of the National Assembly to be more
serious and come up with more convincing reasons that would make the public to
believe in them.

Musa cautioned the lawmakers against
making the impeachment threat look like a move aimed at bargaining for more
resources.

He said the national awards had been
cheapened, insisting that the awards should be for exceptional and not just
distinguished Nigerians.

“I support the plan by the National
Assembly to amend the law from honouring distinguished Nigerians, to honouring
only those who have done exceptional things outside the capability of vast
majority of other Nigerians.

He said there was the need for the
Federal Government to withdraw honours given to those who had behaved dishonourably
after receiving such honours.