Buhari The President That is listening and talking to himself

It has now entered the official category of “ridiculous,” and possibly, the potential of impeachable constitutional breach. Nearly two months after his inauguration, President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to constitute and announce an executive council.


 This is a serious breach of presidential power. To be clear, it is a constitutionally grey area, what time limits a president has, before he could present his cabinet to the National Assembly.  While the constitution is silent on this issue, it is nevertheless clear that Nigeria shall be governed by an executive branch of government comprising the president with an executive council of state. The executive council as prescribed by the constitution is not a rubber stamp council, nor is it a cosmetics cabinet, or merely part of the furniture of presidential power in a presidential system of government; the president and the Federal Executive Council is the full and constitutional executive authority of the federal government of Nigeria, with full executive function, at the head of which is the elected president.  The president, following his election is required to appoint the council, and in the appointment of the nation’s National Executive Council, to be broadly inclusive, and to reflect federal character. There is purpose to every constitutional requirement. Two important aspects of what may now possibly constitute the breach of the constitution by this president, and with impeachable possibilities is that the president of Nigeria has failed to establish an executive government since his inauguration close to sixty days and has been governing alone, like a tyrant, with no recourse to conciliar input. This is the meaning of absolutism. This president is governing as an absolute president.  The president is taking fundamentally weighty decisions on behalf of this republic, largely with a small inner circle of presidential staff, and these decisions, in the nearly sixty days of this presidency have implications for the federation. The president has entered a potentially dangerous area: he has absorbed and assumed every leverage of authority, and is acting as his own adviser and ministers in all the most important areas of executive action. It is a breach of the constitution that requires that every president shall act based on the authority and advise of his ministerial council, which the constitution mandates him to appoint, but whose function the president is never to absorb. The law requires the president to appoint a council of ministers to fully constitute the executive authority of the land otherwise the government does not exist. Vanguard