The Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, says President Muhammadu
Buhari has now become a part-time and ceremonial President who is only
seen during the Friday Jumat service at the Presidential Villa.
Speaking on Sunday, through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said it was
necessary for Nigerians to be properly informed about the well-being of
their President.
Fayose, who said Buhari, like any old man, was susceptible to illness,
said the President would do well to go and take proper care of his
health and allow the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, to constitutionally
act as the President.
“But it is doubtful if those cabals that are obviously running their own
Presidency within President Buhari’s Presidency will allow him to take a
long vacation, probably outside Nigeria to take care of himself,”
Fayose said.
He accused some close allies of the President of deliberately shielding
him and preventing him from attending to his health so as to continue to
run the government on the basis of “Mr President has directed” even
when the President did not direct anything.
He said, “That’s why Nigerians are told every day that the President
said this and that with the President neither speaking directly nor
attending any official function. This is not good for the image of a
country like Nigeria that is struggling to get out of economic
recession.”
Fayose insisted that Nigerians must hear the voice of their President
and see him physically, not through surrogates or the cabal operating
behind the scene.
“It is only when the President is seen and heard physically that
Nigerians will believe that they are not being ruled by a part-time and
ceremonial President, whose powers are being exercised on his behalf by
some cabal,” he said.
