You should have been in jail by now — Buhari attacks Sen Abaribe for asking him to resign

President Muhammadu Buhari 

President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to demand for his resignation by Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe and others.

Recall that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senate Minority Leader, has asked President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) to resign over their inability to safeguard the lives and property of Nigerians since 2015.



He insisted that Buhari and the APC had told Nigerians to stone them if they fail and that “it is now time to pick stones to stone them” in view of their obvious failure.

But Buhari in a statement on Wednesday night through his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said that Abaribe's call for his resignation does not represent the opinion of many Nigerians.

He said that a man who is supposed to be in jail by now for failing to produce Nnamdi Kanu for the continuation of his trial cannot ask him to resign.




He said, “That call does not represent the opinion of the country. This is the opinion of an arm chair critic, known for making stray comments.

“If a leader like President Buhari needs to resign, there are millions of other Nigerians who need to resign, including Senator Abaribe who unlocked the door to enable the escape of traitorous and treasonable suspects.

“He signed the bond for the court to release Nnamdi Kanu on bail, from which moment the suspect disappeared into the thin air.


“Senator Abaribe has failed repeated deadlines to return Kanu to the court for trial, yet he has the effrontery with which to accuse someone of failing to the bidding of the law.

“This is a man who should have replaced the suspects he failed to produce in the correctional facility.

“Abaribe’s party raped the nation and left it collapsing in 2015 and President Buhari is fixing things up all the years he is in office.



“President Buhari is working hard to keep Nigeria and Nigerians out of the harm t*rrorists have unleashed in the entire Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa with the support of Nigerians and our foreign friends, he is going to finish off these t*rrorists. He alone can do it,” he said.