Voters must impeach Buhari, not politicians. – US politician

 Saul Anuzis, a Republican politician in the United States, stated on Wednesday that the electorate, not opposition politicians, should have the power to remove President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) from office. As he made the case that politicians who play such a role undermine democracy itself, he said this. This information was revealed by Anuzis, a former leader of the Michigan Republican Party, in an article headed "America's newest export: Impeachment Proceedings" that appeared in the Washington Times on Tuesday. The essay was nevertheless released by the Presidency on Wednesday in a statement headed "Senior U.S. Republican mocks move to impeach President Buhari." By twice impeaching former president Donald Trump and criminalizing him through the January 6 proceedings, the US Senate, according to Anuzis, set a bad precedent. 

This prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct a raid on Trump's lavish Florida home on Monday. This action has intensified the bitter political discourse around the several legal probes that the former president is dealing with as he considers a candidacy for the White House again in 2024. Anuzis claims that "copycat impeachments have been springing up in dozens of nations throughout the world since the Democrats started going after Mr. Trump in the name of democracy. Suddenly, democratically elected presidents around the world are being challenged by their opposing politicians rather than by the people who elected them, from Malta to Peru, South Africa, and Nigeria.

Yes, opposition leaders have a responsibility to hold the powerful accountable. We have structures, such as committees with the authority to subpoena witnesses and contest their testimony, to assist them in doing their jobs. However, it is not the responsibility of opposition politicians to unseat democratically elected officials. For the voters, that is. And when politicians take that position away from them, democracy itself is threatened. He continued by saying that recent U.S. events had legitimized and drawn attention to "this dishonest and cunning political ploy" on a global scale. He claimed that the Nigerian government's response to the threat was predictable. It urged the opposition to work more closely with the administration to address the security problems at the core of their grievances rather than using showmanship. "However, the harm had already been done. The attention-grabbing prank succeeded in its goal of enabling left-wing international outlets like CNN and BBC to carelessly report the impeachment effort without understanding or disclosing the dubious motivations behind it, he claimed. The Republican lawmaker asserted that the Buhari administration had made substantial progress in addressing the dangers, while acknowledging that Nigeria faces serious security issues that have gotten worse as a result of the epidemic and the global cost of living problem.

Africa, regrettably, has displaced the Middle East as the world's hub for jihadist terrorism. On the front lines of the fight against this disease are the overworked security services and governments of Africa. "This is a threat that might go well beyond the boundaries of Africa, as many of these violent groups are connected to international networks of terrorism. Anuzis added that the African nations "require and deserve all the support we can give as they do their all to combat this threat." He cautioned US politicians to exercise caution in how they influence politicians in other democracies throughout the world, particularly in more recent democracies in Africa, because they are the leaders of the free world. "Those democracies that look to us will follow suit if we engage in dishonest political maneuvering at the price of democracy. And the enemies of freedom, against whom we ought to stand united, will triumph," he concluded.

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