President Muhammadu Buhari’s resignation was demanded by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday due to his purported incompetence.
The party made the announcement a few days after the National Assembly minority caucus handed the president a six-week deadline to address the nation’s security issues or risk being impeached.
In the last several weeks, terrorist strikes have resumed in many states of Nigeria, with Abuja, the capital and most heavily targeted, among them.
Three soldiers were slain last weekend when criminals ambushed members of the 7th Battalion, Guards Brigade, near the Kubwa-Bwari Road.
Throughout the week, they also stormed a military roadblock close to the Zuma rock on the Niger-Abuja highway in Suleja, inflicting injuries on a number of security personnel.
In a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary in the South-West, Sanya Atofarati, the party urged Nigerians and the international community to convince Buhari to resign from office.
The statement read: “It has now become imperative for every right-thinking citizen of the country (Nigeria), regardless of religion or political affiliation, to compel the President not only to tender his resignation but to as well apologise to Nigerians for his gross incompetence since he deceptively took over power in 2015 repeating same in a rigged re-election in 2019 knowing fully well that he lacks the capability and capacity to manage the country.
“It is equally morally expedient for him (Buhari) to resign as a mark of honour and save the country from the precipice.
Nigerians, according to the PDP, can no longer wait for Buhari to finish his tenure in 2023.
“How do we explain that Nigeria has now lost her territorial integrity to insurgents under the clueless government of President Muhamadu Buhari?
“It is now an open secret that the APC-led administration is a ruse and a colossal failure,” it added.
