The Nigeria Governors Forum has agreed to send some Governors to the United Kingdom, UK, to visit President Muhammadu Buhari, except the President returns home between now and next week.
An impeccable source, disclosed that the decision was taken at the last Governors’ meeting, in Abuja.
Recall, that Buhari had a few weeks ago, written to the Senate to inform the Legislators, that he would proceed on medical vacation for 10 working days, and that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, would act on his behalf as President, during his absence.
The President however, was expected to resume work on Monday, February 6, 2017, but he again wrote a letter to the National Assembly a day before, informing the Lawmakers that he needed to extend his leave, in order to complete and get the results of some tests recommended by his Doctors.
On the Governors’ visit to the UK, the source said: “We will visit the President, if he doesn’t come back in the next one week. We decided to do this, after the Leaders of the National Assembly, led by the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, visited the President.
“It was a decision supported by all of us, including members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which is the main opposition party in the country.”
Since Buhari’s departure, some Chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have been paying visits to him, at the Abuja House, in London, UK.
Such APC Chieftains include: Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan; Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and former interim National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande.
Reacting, the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, also said that there was nothing wrong if the Governors, including the PDP, chose to visit Buhari in the UK.
He said: “If the PDP Governors are going to visit the President as a group, Ayade will not be opposed to it, because President Buhari is the President of all Nigerians, irrespective of political affiliation. Again, you know that Ayade has a special relationship with the President.”
Also, the Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, said there was nothing wrong, if any Governor decided to visit the President.
Mimiko, who spoke through the State’s Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, said nobody prayed for the President to die.
He said: “Nobody is happy about the present condition of Mr. President, and if anybody wants to show him love by visiting him in London, it is not bad.”
