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  • Call for Buhari’s Impeachment Fallout: You’ve desecrated House Leader’s position, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells Ado Doguwa

    Call for Buhari’s Impeachment Fallout: You’ve desecrated House Leader’s position, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells Ado Doguwa

    …says you can’t feel the heat of insecurity because you’re carried away by your air-conditioned office
    …you grossly disappointed democracy
    By Emman Ovuakporie
    Peeved by the outbursts of House Majority Leader, Hon Ado Doguwa threatening to punish a fellow lawmaker for calling for the impeachment of President Muhamnadu Buhari, Hon Teejay Yusuf has described his colleague’s action as an act of desecrating democracy.
    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Doguwa speaking during a plenary on Monday, December 21, House majority leader, Ado Doguwa, distanced the PDP from Chinda’s statement. He submitted that the lawmaker’s call for the impeachment of the president does not reflect the position of other members of the opposition party in the House.
    He still went ahead to declare that the Lawmaker would be punished for daring to call for the impeachment of Buhari over his inability to cage insecurity in Nigeria.
    In a statement simply tagged: ‘Response to Ado Doguwa’ Yusuf said:
    “By dabbling into opposition members’ affair, trying to speak for them and expressing crass sycophancy for the executive arm, House Leader, Hon Ado Garba Doguwa has thoroughly desecrated the high position he currently occupies.
    Yusuf ( PDP, Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu) said “a proper understanding of the duties and responsibilities of a House Leader in terms of policy formulation, party issues and democratic development would have motivated Hon Ado Garba Doguwa to respond to the Minister of Justice’ s view that the House cannot invite the President over grave national issues.
    “People who are supposed to be knowledgeable should be adding value to robust democratic processes and practice.
    “But for someone who has been around the House of Representatives since 1991 to denigrate or belittle such, is very anti-democratic, highly disappointing, prankish and embarrassing to us all,” Yusuf stated.
    Dismissing Hon Doguwa’s threat to mobilise for sanctions against the leader of PDP House Caucus, Hon. Kingsley Chinda over his call for impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari, Hon Yusuf stated that such wishful thinking antagonizes the rising concern of Nigerian citizens.
    “Hon. Doguwa is so carried away by the air-conditioning in his Office that he can neither feel the heat of bandits and terrorists’ daily killings and abductions on innocent citizens in rural and urban parts across the North and southern Nigeria.
    “He grossly disappointed democracy by failing to realise that Hon Chinda only called for the use of an impeachment as a tool for the furtherance of democracy without going outside the rule of law.
    “Very clearly and effectively, Hon Kingsley Chinda speaks for those of us who are members of the House PDP Caucus; it is a gross anomaly for any Doguwa to dabble into our affairs, see himself as a legitimate usurper or impersonator and proclaim to a gullible audience that he does not think that Hon Chinda is speaking for us.
    “Sycophancy from APC figures like Hon Doguwa has thoroughly lulled the executive arm into slumber, generating unprecedented level of youth unemployment and singling out this administration as the only one to record two recessions in the history of Nigeria.
    “Hon Doguwa got it wrong and it is very sad that the high expectations of the high position that he occupies is being brought low with such impunity and wanton disregard for the opposition’s democratic rights to make a call that resonates with millions of deeply concerned citizens of Nigeria,” Yusuf stated.
  • #EndSARS: AGF must issue national apology over wrong comments, Hon Yusuf tells FG

    #EndSARS: AGF must issue national apology over wrong comments, Hon Yusuf tells FG

    …says FG must reverse missteps

    Federal Government should reverse its missteps as the two youth members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry commendably resumed sitting during the weekend, a member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Teejay Yusuf has said.

    Rinu Oduala and Temitope Majekodunmi, the youth members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry resumed sitting on Saturday November 14, after boycotting the panel for more than a week in protest against the Central Bank of Nigeria’s freezing of their bank accounts and that of other #EndSARS promoters.

    In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Honourable Teejay Yusuf (PDP, Ijumu/Kabba-Bunu Federal Constituency) stated that while there are lessons to learn by both the protesters and the government, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami’s alleged statement that hoodlum in military fatigues shot at protesters deserves to be followed with a national apology.

    He emphasized that it is ‘thoroughly confounding’ that in spite of the Federal Government promise to look into the demands of the protesters, government went to great lengths with actions and words that aroused real doubts over its sincerity.

    “The Federal Government asked them to calm down and they did so, only for the Federal Government to embark upon series of arrests, passport seizure and freezing of bank accounts of the #EndSARS protesters.

    “While right thinking citizens feel concerned about the real possibilities of driving the democratic expression of dissenting opinions into the threatening catacombs of underground activities, the Federal Government must advice itself against further deliberate mis-steps.

    “It is absolutely pathetic that a government that promised progressive ideals has consistently shown a tendency to find comfort in dictatorial fiat and jackboot oppression of its people,” he stated.

    According to the legislator, it is absolutely regrettable that the idealistic youthful protesters were being deliberately confronted with strong-arm tactics and disrespectfully lumped together by government in a manner suggestive of deliberate official mischief aimed towards obliterating their credibility.

    “Lawful protests are part of citizens’ inalienable democratic rights and the October protests by youth and activists laid out a five-point demand before the government calling for an end to police brutality across the country.

    “They also asked for immediate release of arrested protesters, justice for all deceased victims of police brutality, appropriate compensations for their families, setting up of an independent body to oversee the investigation and prosecution of all reported police misconduct within a period of 10 days.

    “Their demands for a psychological evaluation of disbanded Special Anti-Robbery operatives, increase in police salary and compensations all resonated with the Nigerian public”, he stated.

    Noting that the Federal Government’s Presidential Panel on Police Reforms acceded to the five demands made by the protesters, Honourable Yusuf emphasized the need for government to foster a sense of belonging and social justice rather than decisions that further portrays Nigeria in negative light internationally.

  • Umahi’s defection: You are inheriting our problem, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells APC

    Umahi’s defection: You are inheriting our problem, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells APC

    With Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi, the All Progressives Congress is inheriting a burden of deceitfulness, dictatorial tendencies and perpetually questionable loyalty which was being managed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Hon Teejay Yusuf who represents Ijumu/Kabba-Bunu Federal Constituency of Kogi State in the House of Representatives made this declaration in a statement he issued on Saturday.

    The top ranking lawmker said”At last, the yoke of deep character flaws, puzzling over commitment to self at the expense of party and troubling anti-people tendencies that we coped with is about to be cast off the PDP,” Honourable Yusuf said.

    The legislator criticised leaders of his own party, the PDP for allowing Gov Umahi a second term even after his character flaws and dictatorial tendencies had started manifesting, adding that Umahi’s romance with APC likely began since 2015.

    Commending members of the Ebonyi state House of Assembly who have chosen to steadfastly desist from joining what he described as ‘Umahi’s political misadventure’, Hon Yusuf emphasized that no serious political party will entertain the delusion of seeing carpet-crossing Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi as its presidential candidate.

    According to the legislator, it is wrong for Umahi to try project his vaunting personal political ambition as an Igbo cause, especially when APC has not declared any intention to zone its 2023 presidential ticket to the South East zone.

    “A deceitful man carrying around a perpetually bruised ego is the worst element to consider for presidential candidature in the worst political party that ever existed.

    “Umahi’ s dictatorial tendencies got unmasked in Ebonyi state where the governor could order an arrest for simply observing a loved one’s wake-keep and then try to ban journalists for life, just because they reported happenings in the state.

    “Even after benefiting so much from a political party that continuously tolerated his known tendencies for so long, Umahi had the guts to tell the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday that he was leaving the party.

    “In a move that the International Press Centre (IPC) described as “executive lawlessness”, Umahi did a state-wide live broadcast where he stated that he was banning for life, the state correspondent of ‘The Sun’ newspaper, Chijioke Agwu, and his Vanguard counterpart, Peter Okutu, from entering the Ebonyi Government House or any other government facility within the state.

    “Mr. Agwu’ s only offence was that he did a report on the Lassa Fever outbreak in Ebonyi state, and Mr Okutu reported on an alleged crisis in Ohaukwu local government area.

    “Indeed, how many other governors threaten journalists with “koboko” (horse whip) and how many governors’ actions has the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) described as an unfortunate and sad reminder of the rule by force under military regimes?

    “Why should a governor order the indiscriminate shooting of those who elected him, if anyone of them dares hinder his convoy’s passing on the road?

    “Although he bowed to pressure and withdrew his rather dictatorial pronouncements, Governor Umahi’s capacity to tolerate people’s genuine exercise of democratic rights remains questionable.

    “Someone with such character deficits can never be an asset but a liability to facilitate his party’s defeat; nobody in PDP should bemoan losing Umahi and his baggage of political misadventure to any other party”, Hon Teejay Yusuf stated.