The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on its members in the national assembly where it holds a minority position, to kick-start impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari.

The opposition party is also demanding the resignation of certain members of Buhari’s economic team.

The call for the president’s impeachment is coming on the heels of the senate President’s revelation on Thursday that two versions of the national budget found their way into the national assembly.

Senate President Bukola Saraki accused the President’s Special Adviser on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang of doctoring and mass producing a second version of the budget–completely different from the version Buhari tabled on the floor of the senate on December 22.

“The PDP National Working Committee rose from a meeting Thursday charging the National Assembly to commence impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari for the various constitutional breaches especially the submission of two versions of the 2016 budget”, the opposition party said in a statement signed by its acting national chairman, Uche Secondus.

The party said the National Assembly should thoroughly investigate the “shameful act, including the distortion and bandying of figures to accommodate their personal interest and ensure that appropriate sanctions are meted to whoever has a hand in the dubious action that has brought embarrassment to the legislative body”.

The PDP also asked the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, to immediately tender their resignations “having failed to provide the much needed capacity in the management of the nation’s economy resulting in the embarrassing crashing of the nation’s currency to as low as N305 to a dollar”.

The party also called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to resign “for plunging the country’s currency policy into chaos; an action that has thrown investors into total confusion”.

“We sympathize with Nigerians who are seriously undergoing terrible hardship because of the now obvious inept leadership of APC despite the promise of one Naira to a dollar.

“What hope can a government that allows its currency to break a 43 year old record crashing to over N300 to one dollar offer and yet does not show it has clear focus of what to do,” the party said.

The PDP upbraided the “APC government” who “rather than address very grievous national issues created by its lack of capacity to govern has instead resorted to violation of peoples rights in the name of fighting corruption”.