Cabal In Presidency, APC Holding Nigerians To Ransom Over Buhari, Says Fayose

By Matthew Don
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said the cabal in the Presidency and All Progressives Congress (APC) are in a dilemma over whether to bring President Muhammadu Buhari back to the country in his current state of health or to leave him in London.
He said, “the President has become a bad business for the cabal that imposed him on Nigerians,” noting that he had insisted that Nigerians must be told the truth about the President’s state of health.
“I told Nigerians then that President Buhari was a black-market packaged by the APC cabal that was only interested in seizing power by whatever means and now, I have been vindicated,” Fayose said.
In a statement on Monday, July 10 by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said: “For a President, who has spent 113 days abroad taking care of his health out of the 191 days in 2017, it is time for Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to be invoked.
“President Buhari left Nigeria for London on May 7, 2017 and today is July 10, 2017, 64 days since Nigerians saw their President or heard anything from him. Even the President’s handlers are keeping Nigerians in the dark.
“Even though the number of days that a president can spend outside the country is not specified in the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the makers of the laws of Nigeria envisaged this kind of situation and made provisions for how to resolve it in Section 144.
“It has therefore become pertinent that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) must invoke Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution by passing a resolution declaring that President Buhari is incapable of discharging the functions of his office.”
Fayose, who insisted that he was not interested in President Buhari’s death, said that freeing Nigeria from the hands of those who are currently holding the country to ransom should be the major concern of all well-meaning Nigerians.
“They are always quick to tell Nigerians that there is an Acting President in person of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and as such, no vacuum government. However, we all know the limitations of the Acting President. We know that there are so many things Prof. Osinbajo cannot do and Nigerians are the ones bearing the consequences of a bedridden President,” Fayose argued.