The picture of President Muhammadu Buhari dining with
chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which obviously was meant to
douse tension in the land as regards the health status of the president, is
instead generating serious controversy, with opposition Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) describing it as a collective insult to Nigerians.
The photo showed President Muhammad Buhari dinning with the APC delegation led by the
party’s national chairman, Chief John Oyegun, in Abuja House, London, July 23,
2017.
Also on the delegation are Imo State Governor Owelle
Rocharles Okorocha, who also is chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum; Kaduna
State Governor Nasiru El-Rufai; Nassarawa State Governor Tanko Almakura; and
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello.
The PDP’s reaction was coming same time former Aviation
Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, would described the picture as fake, alleging
that the whole thing was a charade put together by the APC leadership to
sustain the cabal in power.
Fani-Kayode in his reaction to the sudden appearance of the
photo, did also not spare the media and the National Assembly for remaining
docile in the face of what he called a conspiracy, adding that any message
conveyed by Governor Rochas Okorocha, who was said to have passed the
information to the president’s special adviser for onward transmission to media,
cannot pass the barometer of truth.
While Fani-Kayode insisted he would not believe anything
that comes from the Imo State governor, Okorocha, in a swift reaction, reportedly
took on Fani-Kayode, calling him a spoilt child whose only connection to
humanity is the name of his father.
PDP, while reacting to the development, yesterday however, describe
the photo as an insult to the people of Nigeria.
Spokesman of the opposition party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye,
said: “It is an insult to Nigerians because they don’t think that we are
important; once they meet with the president that is all, and they will come
and show us a picture.
“They don’t even think that it is necessary for the
president to send message to Nigerians or for themselves to come and tell us
what happened during that meeting. They
merely planted pictures in the front pages of all the newspapers, and they
think that is alright.
“That is not the way to behave in a civilised country. At
least, ordinarily we should have been having daily bulletins on the president’s
health. The man is being treated there in London with tax payers’ money, and we
elected him to do a job.”
Insisting that the PDP wished the president well, the party
spokesman faulted the attitude of his handlers, saying: “We wish him well, and
we want him to live, but it is pure contempt for Nigerians for a group of
people, party leaders to just go and meet the president and come and show us
pictures Without saying anything, either from them or from the president to
Nigerians.
It is pure contempt; it is an insult to our collective
intelligence,” the party noted.
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