duration of her stay and only met President Buhari in Abuja House for dinner.
While her Facebook posting was being circulated, President Buhari’s recently married daughter, Zahra Indimi, also sent out a tweet in which she said, “Afternoon Nigeria….”
The message appeared to infuriate Nigerians on tweeter, as they bombarded her with questions and insults. She later responded to one of the questions about her father’s health, asserting that he was doing “pretty good”.
SaharaReporters learnt from presidency sources that persons going into Abuja House to visit President Buhari, his wife included, are thoroughly searched and prevented from going in with a mobile phone. Mrs. Buhari has not released any photos of her meeting with the President since arriving in London, however, she released a photo of herself attending a memorial event for Prof. Osotimilehin in London where she gave a brief speech. She made no mention of President Buhari’s health.
The cabal had earlier queued behind Senate President Bukola Saraki to frustrate and sabotage the Ag. President. That plot came to a head when Saraki, believing Mr. Osinbajo to be out of the country, plotted with some other Senators to declare him “Acting President.”
Unknown to him, the Acting President had returned from Ethiopia, where he had attended an African Union summit.
Following the exposure of their desperate moves, the cabal began to move around the north to whip up ethnic and religious sentiments against Mr. Osinbajo. On his part, Saraki has in the past two weeks twice met with the Acting President to explain his side of the story, the first at the behest of the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun.
Also, on Sunday, Saraki flew from Lagos for a late-night meeting with Mr. Osinbajo, in the company of the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara. Saraki is said to be losing the support of some Senators in his latest quest for power, but to shore up his base and reward core loyalists, he threatened to rejig committees in the Senate.
Also, to curb the backlash that resulted from his wild ambitions, he began pushing the Senate Whip, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, to defend him and his colleagues, trying to take advantage of Prof. Adeyeye’s credible image as a man who hails from the same Southwest region as the Ag. president.
Our presidency source said that in order to beat a possible backlash of President Buhari spending three months in London and the attendant consequences of the pressure which might come from the public, the cabal will soon announce that he will be going on his annual leave and keep hoping that he can make it to Nigeria sometime in August to help them keep power.
