Osinbajo & Buhari
Hehehe...... Impeccable
sources within the corridors of power have revealed how Saraki at a
meeting, handed down some threat-like message to Osinbajo, over Buhari'
health, giving him an ultimatum.
Contrary to reports that the visit of the Acting President Yemi
Osinbajo to London, the United Kingdom, last Tuesday was to brief
President Muhammadu Buhari on the state of the nation, findings by
Saturday Telegraph have revealed that Osinbajo was actually compelled by
the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) to take the trip and
ascertain the health status of the ailing president.
Fresh facts gathered by our correspondents showed that the Senate
President Dr. Bukola Saraki, had at a recent fence-mending meeting with
Osinbajo conveyed a resolution of the NASS leadership in which they had
requested that the Acting President must visit London and update them on
happenings concerning Buhari if the ex-ecutive did not want to incur
the wrath of the lawmakers.
The recent face-off between both arms of government had led to the
stance of the lawmakers, forcing a late night meeting between the two
topmost personalities in the country.
Saraki had met with Osinbajo on July 6 after the Senate began a
face-off with the executive, stopping the confirmation of all nominees
over a statement credited to the Acting President, in which he had said
that the lawmakers did not have powers to confirm nominees other than
ministerial and ambassadorial candidates.
Impeccable sources within the corridors of power informed that,
Saraki, at the meeting, handed down the threat-like message to Osinbajo,
giving him an ultimatum, within which he must report back to the
nation.
“It was the Senate President that forced him to go to London.
Osinbajo did not have the plan to travel until the time he met Saraki,
who gave him the resolution of his colleagues. When queried on whether
the Senate President could actually wield such powers of threat against
the Acting President, the source insisted that that was what happened
and that Osinbajo had been wary of his actions and utterances since the
renewed face-off with the Senate and House of Representatives began.
“If you noticed, the Acting President has been very careful
with them now. He had to obey their wish and gave them what they want
for peace to reign”, he said. The sources further revealed that
Saraki had told Osinbajo that Senators and members of the House of
Representatives were not happy and were ready to invoke the required
sections of the constitution that give them power to declare the
president incapacitated.
“They were threatening to force the Federal Executive Council
(FEC) to do the needful. They also wanted to use the Doctrine of
Necessity, but Osinbajo is a wise man. He did not contest it with them,
he went to UK and used the opportunity to see for himself the actual
state of the president’ health.”
However, in response to our enquiries on the matter, the Special
Assistant to the Senate President on Print Media, Mr. Chuks Okocha,
denied knowledge of the event, saying that nothing could be farther from
the truth. Olivia who spoke with our correspondent on the phone said:
”It is a bloody lie” and his phone went off thereafter.
All attempts to get him to make further comments on the issue did not
produce positive results as his line became permanently busy and
rejected further calls.
Similarly, Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on
Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Laolu Akande, declined comment on the
issue. Akande, who initially picked the call put across to him, said the
network at his end was not clear and requested that our inquiry should
be channelled to him via a social media platform, WhatsApp.
However, when the message was sent to his medium, Akande gave no
further response. Also, a top government functionary who preferred
anonymity told Saturday Telegraph in confidence that the whole story of
Osinbajo travelling to London under pressure from Saraki was untrue.”Those who are even fabricating such rumours are not being fair to either Osinbajo or Saraki.
The Acting President is in charge of the government in the absence
of President Muhammadu Buhari and I don’t see how someone else, no
matter how highly placed, will force him to go and see his boss who is
sick and receiving medical attention in London.
"Let us give our leaders some respect when we say these things because they don’t just add up at all,” he
said. Meanwhile, a former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu,
had on Thursday said Osinbajo’s visit to Buhari in London, had shown
that the rumour peddlers were liars.
The former governor, who said that everything possible should be
done to reduce increasing hate speeches and `death wish’ in the country
urged Nigerians to pray for Buhari’s quick recovery. Kalu said that
those peddling rumours that Buhari is on life support had been proven
wrong.
Source: New Telegraph
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