Soyinka backs Buhari's impeachment.

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has join other high profile Nigeria backing the plot by the legislature to impeach President Mohammed Buhari over the spate of insecurity across the country.

The senate has given the President a six-day ultimatum to address the incessant insecurity or impeachment will commence against him. The move was quickly followed by the lower chamber.

The move was quickly welcomed by many of his critics across the country, especially among those who feel the president is incompetent to tackle the current spate of security issues.

Wole Soyinka, a strong observer of the economy became the latest public figure to throw his weight behind those calling for the president's impeachment after human right activist, SAN Femi Falana last week claimed that the impeachment is long overdue.

Soyinka spoke on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during an interactive session organised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Abeokuta Club.

The session, which had a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana; the Registrar of the Joint Administration and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede; a lawyer, Gbenga Adeoye; a businessman, Ogo-Oluwa Bankole; and the spokesman of the Electricity Distribution Companies, Sunday Oduntan, as panellists, had as its theme “Good governance or mis-governance: The contract called democracy.”

Soyinka, who was the session’s moderator, noted that the President should be impeached because he had trampled on the process of democracy.

He said, "Democracy indicates a contract, that is why the candidate puts on a manifesto. On the basis of that manifesto, the candidate is either accepted or rejected.

"Very often, the grounds for breach of contract, I think we all agree, is mis-governance and one of the ways of breaking this kind of contract we know even before the duration of a contract is known as impeachment.

"The reason we will go by some legislators to impeach the President who is the head of government. In fact, one cleric has gone even further. He believes that the impeachment should take place not in the legislative home but in the bush with the kidnappers and he appealed to the kidnappers to quicken the process by impeaching the President and take him away and some of his aides and one or two governors."

Last week, human right activist, Femi Falana, revealed during an exclusive interview with Channel's TV that the six-month ultimatum is too much, and it would be better if it was just a week ultimatum.

"You see! By virtue of section 14 subsection 2 subsection 2 of the constitution, the welfare and security of the people shall be the primary purpose of government, once the welfare of our people have been sacrificed....security under serious threat....in fact, the national assembly has been slow, extremely slow." Falana said.