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CONTROVERSY over President Muhammadu Buhari’s ill health is still generating reactions from Nigerians.
On Thursday, May 18, Aisha Yesufu, a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, group, advised the president to resign in the interest of Nigeria and that the National Assembly should impeach him if he fails to do so. Yesufu gave the advice in a video she recorded and posted on Twitter page.
She stated that the idea of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo acting as president is not working, and stagnating governance in the country. She said: “For crying out loud, the president is sick, the president is not capable of discharging his duties as president, why can’t he resign?” Sickness can be on anybody, nobody is wishing the president bad. The fact that he is sick doesn’t mean he is going to die today or tomorrow. Somebody that is as healthy as I am now can drop dead. It is life! “How long are we going to wait and keep watching everything go in disarray. Who is going to sign the budget, we don’t know. The report on (Lawal) Babachir, what is happening to it? Why are we being held to ransom?”
In a direct message to the president, Yesufu said: “President Muhammadu Buhari, you have gotten the best in this world. A lot of things that you have, most people cannot even dream of.
“You have being president twice, you said it yourself, you have reached the peak of your career as a military man and as a politician.
“Can you allow each and every one of us as Nigerians be able to reach the peak of our careers? Can you just take some time off, take care of yourself. May God give you good health.”
The activist then called on Nigerians to “wake up”, adding that the acting president could not do anything because he would want to be seen as a good man.
“We need to take our country back, let the president resign, if he can’t resign, let the National Assembly do the right thing and let’s have another president. It is not about President Buhari, it’s about Nigeria, and right now Nigeria is suffering and we cannot continue to allow this,” she said.
— May 29, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT
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