The former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress,
(APC), Bisi Akande may have landed himself into trouble following his
comments on the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Akande had on Monday advised that President Buhari should
concentrate on his health and seek further medical treatment to his
ailing health rather than remaining in Nigeria for governance.
The former Governor of Osun state alleged that a cabal at the villa
is currently benefitting from the current state of things in the
presidency, stressing that they would continue to profit from the state
of the health of President Buhari.
But the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said that
it would take time to study the views expressed by the former interim
national chairman of the party and come up with a position.
APC national publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi,
yesterday told newsmen on phone that the party’s national chairman,
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had said that the party would not rush to a
hasty position on Akande’s comment.
According to him, the party leadership sees the views of the former
interim national chairman as very significant but would take time to
analyse it before it makes any comment on it.
Chief Akande, in a statement he signed on Monday said the country
was faced with two major problems, giving the health challenge of
President Muhammadu Buhari and the lack of cohesion between the National
Assembly and the Presidency as reasons.
Akande while commenting on the president’s health according to
the statement had said “When last we met at the wedding of his daughter
in Abuja last December, I complained to him that I was not happy about
his stressful looks. His reply connoted some allusions to circumstances
where an honest man fighting corruption is surrounded mostly by
unpatriotic, greedy ruling class. He felt painfully frustrated. He
assured me he would soon be going on vacation.
I then knew that corruption has effectively been fighting back. And I prayed for Nigeria.
“That was why Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and I rushed to meet him in
London in February this year when he was sick and could not return as
scheduled from his vacation. The rest is history but we must appreciate
that his poor health is already taking a toll on the health of Nigeria
as a polity,” he said.
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