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| President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. |
The health status of President Muhammadu Buhari has
continued to generate controversies across the country.
On May 7, President Buhari departed
the country for a follow up of his medicals in London, United Kingdom.
Before embarking on his medical
vacation in London, President Buhari had written a letter to the Nigerian
Senate notifying the lawmakers of his medical leave to London.
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| President Buhari’s letter to Senate. |
While the Vice President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo has carried out the role of an ‘Acting President’ in Buhari’s absence,
co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Aisha Yesufu, seems not to be
satisfied with the ‘Acting President trend’ in the country, calling on
President Buhari to resign.
Yesufu made this call in a
two-minute, twenty seconds video she posted on micro blogging site, Twitter on
May 19, 2017.
In the video, the outspoken BBOG
leader stressed that the current acting president role carried out by Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo is not working for the country.
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| Co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Aisha Yesufu. Photo credit: Channels TV |
In her words, “When are we going to
realise that this acting president thing is not working out, it’s really not
working out?” she asked.
Speaking further, Yesufu stressed
that the country is stagnant due to the President’s ill health, adding that the
President must resign for the good of the country.
According
to her, “Things are stagnating in Nigeria, for crying out loud, the president
is sick, the president is not capable of discharging his duty as president, why
can’t he resign.
“For crying out loud President Muhammadu Buhari, can you allow everyone of us to reach the peak of our careers.
“For crying out loud President Muhammadu Buhari, can you allow everyone of us to reach the peak of our careers.
“What
you’re going through is God sent, people go through that in different ways.
“But
please, Mr. President do not allow this keep the rest of us in bondage and for
us as Nigerians it is time we wake up, the Acting President can’t do anything
because he wants to be seen as a good man.
“We need to take our country back.
“Let the president resign, and if he can’t, the national assembly should do the
right thing and let’s have another president. ” Yesufu lamented.
Video credit: TheCable
While Yesufu has expressed her discontent
and calling on President Buhari to resign, Mohammed Yakubu, a member
of the national executive committee of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), in the
other hand, has said that the north will vote for President Buhari in 2019 general
election 'even if he is on a wheel chair'.
According to him, “I will not advise him to resign. You will recall that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was asking the then ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to resign, I granted an interview to your newspaper, as the youth leader of Northern Union, telling Nigerians that even on a wheelchair, we will support Yar’Adua to rule the country. Unfortunately, he died.
“I am also making the same statement today that Buhari should not resign, even if he is on a wheelchair, north and people of Nigeria will vote him in 2019. I am not just associating myself with Buhari, I am advocating for good governance under President Buhari.
“I don’t think that it is proper for anybody to humiliate Buhari out of office by mounting pressure on him to resign. It is not fair; it is not just, it is not proper.
“We have election timetable if you don’t like him, vote him out during the election, but I will not support anybody that will want to humiliate the president out of office. As long as he is alive, it is not right to demand of him to resign,” Yakubu opined.
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| Mohammed Yakubu. Photo credit: AIT |
Also speaking on the matter, Chukwuma Stanley and Nkechi Kanu, retailers in Ogba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have called on the President to resign.
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| Chukwuma Stanley. Photo credit: Philips Sunday |
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| Nkechi Kanu. Photo credit: Philips Sunday |
— Philips Sunday (@PurityPhils) June 21, 2017Will the President resign or will he continue until the expiration of his tenure in 2019 despite his health issues? This remains a big question on the lips of many Nigerians even as the Presidency have refused to make open the medical details of President Buhari since he departed the country for London on May 7 for a follow up of his medicals.
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