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Former Senate Majority Leader, Mohammed Ndume, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s ongoing medical vacation has no time limit. He therefore questioned the propriety of demands by some Nigerians for full disclosures on the President’s health.
The senator also assured Nigerians that Buhari, though still ill, is not incapacitated.
He said: “Most Nigerians are ignorant that the medical vacation of an executive (president or governor) as provided in the Nigerian constitution has no limitation.
He made the disclosures while speaking to journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday evening.
Ndume who is presently suspended from the Senate, said the call to have the president’s health status made public was not right as it is a security issue.
According to him, information linked to the President has shown that he is still aware of happenings around him and has been in constant touch with the Acting President to offer advice on governance.
He said the only thing missing at the Presidency was Muhammadu Buhari as a person but the country has not ceased from moving, stressing that what the president deserves is the prayers of all Nigerians not the clamour in some quarters for him to resign.
Ndume argued that since there was no evidence indicating that the president is incapacitated, there is no time frame for how long he could be away sick and Nigerians should take solace in the fact that the country is not on a standstill.
He said: “What the constitution requires is for the president to write to the Senate and House of Representatives, which he did and asked the vice president to act as president, which is in order.”
He added that: “The vice president is acting as president successfully in consultation with the president. Everybody knows that the acting president has been consulting the president or in contact with the president as he acts as president, hence there are things the acting president will do without asking anybody and there are things he will do after consultation with the president, which is normal and democratic.”
He said: “What President Buhari deserves from Nigerians are prayers not bad wishes or insults for ruling and saving Nigeria from collapse and destruction. Nigeria was in bad shape and almost at the stage of collapse when President Buhari took over the mantle of leadership of the country.
“All he deserves are prayers not curses from Nigerians. I am surprise and worry to hear Nigerians wishing death for their President, instead of being grateful and prayerful.”
He argued that: “Other presidents in USA, Germany, Britain and other developed counties of the world that we claimed we are copying their democracy, ruled countries in illness and incapacitation but still nobody in their countries complained in the manner Nigerians are doing about their President.
“Whether Buhari is in Nigeria or not, the government will continue and Buhari is only a person not a country but our leader and a popularly elected president ,which should be regarded and respected for the good things he has done and peace he has brought to our country, not insults or curse or bad wishes.
“We are in democracy and politics is all about governance while the leadership of the country is on course except for the usual problem of hurry, hurry and impatience we have in Nigeria.”
He said: “Most Nigerians are ignorant that the medical vacation of an executive (president or governor) as provided in the Nigerian constitution has no limitation.
He made the disclosures while speaking to journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday evening.
Ndume who is presently suspended from the Senate, said the call to have the president’s health status made public was not right as it is a security issue.
According to him, information linked to the President has shown that he is still aware of happenings around him and has been in constant touch with the Acting President to offer advice on governance.
He said the only thing missing at the Presidency was Muhammadu Buhari as a person but the country has not ceased from moving, stressing that what the president deserves is the prayers of all Nigerians not the clamour in some quarters for him to resign.
Ndume argued that since there was no evidence indicating that the president is incapacitated, there is no time frame for how long he could be away sick and Nigerians should take solace in the fact that the country is not on a standstill.
He said: “What the constitution requires is for the president to write to the Senate and House of Representatives, which he did and asked the vice president to act as president, which is in order.”
He added that: “The vice president is acting as president successfully in consultation with the president. Everybody knows that the acting president has been consulting the president or in contact with the president as he acts as president, hence there are things the acting president will do without asking anybody and there are things he will do after consultation with the president, which is normal and democratic.”
He said: “What President Buhari deserves from Nigerians are prayers not bad wishes or insults for ruling and saving Nigeria from collapse and destruction. Nigeria was in bad shape and almost at the stage of collapse when President Buhari took over the mantle of leadership of the country.
“All he deserves are prayers not curses from Nigerians. I am surprise and worry to hear Nigerians wishing death for their President, instead of being grateful and prayerful.”
He argued that: “Other presidents in USA, Germany, Britain and other developed counties of the world that we claimed we are copying their democracy, ruled countries in illness and incapacitation but still nobody in their countries complained in the manner Nigerians are doing about their President.
“Whether Buhari is in Nigeria or not, the government will continue and Buhari is only a person not a country but our leader and a popularly elected president ,which should be regarded and respected for the good things he has done and peace he has brought to our country, not insults or curse or bad wishes.
“We are in democracy and politics is all about governance while the leadership of the country is on course except for the usual problem of hurry, hurry and impatience we have in Nigeria.”
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