Health Crisis: Security Beefed Up in London as Pressure Mounts on Buhari to Resign
Emerging facts revealed that security has been beefed up in the Abuja House, London, as an international Human Rights Organisation, called ‘Opinion Nigeria’, is mounting pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to tender his resignation letter, in order to pave way for the confirmation of the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, as President.
According to a Reporter stationed outside the premises of the building, the officials at the House have stepped up security measures, to prevent him or other media men from talking to visitors in the building.
On his resignation, President of the group, Jeff Okoroafor, in a petition to Buhari entitled: “A call for President Muhammad’s Buhari’s resignation without further ado”, said the response by Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, that Buhari was “on a short leave, which is part of his annual vacation”, was the beginning of an unending tale.”
Okoroafor, said this scenario had left the Vice President in an acting capacity “for too long”, especially at a time when the country was in dire need of affirmative actions to put things in the right perspective for the year.
He said: “Although there seem to be a general assumption that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is acting in the place of the President, as such no vacuum is created in the system. But we are quite aware that there are so many pending issues on the desk of Mr. President that awaits his return.
“We cannot be operating in secrecy at the Presidential level, expecting the information hungry Nigerians to keep mute. We have the right to know what is happening and we are committed to a functional and operational Nigeria, which is not halted for any political gains or satisfaction.
“Based on this, we call for the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari, quoting his health as the reason to fully function as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, followed swiftly with the immediate confirmation of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, as a substantive President of the country.
“We hope that this petition will reach deserving authorities in good faith, understanding that the urgency of this request is born out of the desire to salvage the country from total collapse. We pray and urge that this letter will be treated without prejudice or sentiment from whatever sphere of reasoning”, it emphasised.
“As the days on vacation recede, Nigerians yearn insistently to know the circumstances surrounding the President’s seemingly emergency exit from the country. It is ponderous to put on record that this so-called all important vacation was coming at a point when the country’s economy was demanding the innovation, or yet still budgetary intervention to ameliorate the sufferings of many Nigerians.
“The social media in Nigeria within these seven- over ten day vacation was awashed with stories competing for public attention about the reason behind the trip. The stories expanded with time with the climax asserting the death of President Buhari, over failure to respond to treatments from the medical team in some named Hospital in the UK.
“The Presidency so far has come up with conflicting versions of comments to diffuse the tension, but their words further rambled the suspicion of most Nigerians who requested that the President relay a video to Nigerians, assuring them that he was hale and hearty but, he never succumbed.”
