"They're just wasting their time" - Presidency responds to impeachment threat

The presidency has called the impeachment notice by the minority senate members of the legislature a "bravado" and "waste of time."

This was said by the presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, in response to a six-week ultimatum given by the senators to the president to find a lasting solutions to the rising insecurity across the country.

In an exclusive interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, he said "I think it was just bravado, and sadly, security is not something you subject to bravado."

He said people should not begin to issue claptrap ultimatums in something that is a matter of life and death.

He added those who spoke today are the minority of minorities, and that they would have their say as was needful in a democracy, but that it would not go beyond that.

According to him, those senators knew in their heart of hearts that they could not achieve what they were saying.

He said, "they are just wasting the country’s time, wasting the time of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, they know that they cannot achieve it."

He claimed that the truth was that in this kind of scenario, minority “will always have its say while the majority will have its way.”

Adesina said every Nigerian needed to be concerned about the insecurity situation in the country, but said the senators were only worried because the insecurity has gotten close to them in Abuja.

Recently the country has been facing a spate of insecurities, the latest of which is a threat to abduct the president.

This week, terrorists attacked the presidential guards killing eight officers.