The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2027 presidential election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has called for the immediate impeachment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over what he described as an alleged breach of the 1999 Constitution.
Adebayo accused Tinubu of prolonging his absence from the country without formally transmitting power to the Vice-President, alleging that the action violated constitutional provisions on the transfer of presidential authority.
According to a statement by the Adewole Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign Council, signed by its Director of Communications, Comrade Mark Adebayo, the President’s alleged failure to formally transmit power amounted to a disregard for the rule of law.
The council cited Section 145(1) of the Constitution, which provides that whenever the President proceeds on vacation or is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, he shall transmit a written declaration to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
It said the provision further provides for the Vice-President to perform the functions of President as Acting President until a contrary declaration is transmitted.
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👉 JOIN WHATSAPP CHANNELThe council contrasted the situation with the practice under former President Muhammadu Buhari, who, according to the statement, formally transmitted power to former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo when he travelled abroad for vacation or medical treatment.
The campaign council also expressed concern over what it described as the simultaneous absence of the President and Vice-President from the country.
It said leaving Nigeria without a “clear, constitutionally empowered leader in residence” could pose a threat to national security and create delays in critical decision-making.
Reacting to the development, Adebayo said the Constitution was the supreme law of the country and should not be treated as a suggestion.
“A country cannot be run like a private estate or an absentee-landlord enterprise. The Constitution is not a polite suggestion; it is the supreme law of the land,” he said.
“When a President treats the grundnorm of our democracy with contempt by abandoning his post without transmitting power, he abdicates his legitimacy to govern. This is a severe infraction, and the constitutional remedy for such a breach is clear: impeachment!”
Adebayo also criticised the National Assembly, alleging that it had failed to perform its constitutional oversight responsibilities by not initiating impeachment proceedings against the President.
He described the legislature as a “rubber-stamp legislature” and accused it of operating as an extension of the executive arm rather than as an independent check on executive power.
The campaign council called on Nigerians, civil society organisations and constitutional lawyers to speak out against what it described as a dangerous precedent and demanded what it termed an immediate return to constitutional order.
Recent reports separately show that other opposition actors have also questioned whether the constitutional requirements surrounding the President’s absence were met, although those claims concern alleged constitutional non-compliance rather than an established finding of a breach.
On healthcare, Adebayo said his administration would work to end or significantly reduce medical tourism by public office holders through improvements in Nigeria’s health institutions.
“Under my watch, medical tourism by public office holders would significantly reduce or fizzle out entirely because I will fix our health institutions with uncompromising alacrity as President and any public official that wants to have medical treatment abroad would have to do so at his own expense,” he said.
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