• Fayose
wants FEC to declare President unfit
• Arewa
leaders shun 2019 campaigners
Wife of the
President, Hajia Aisha Buhari, has given an insight into the power play at the
Nigerian seat of power in the wake of sickness that has kept her husband out of
the
country for over two months. In a Facebook post yesterday, Mrs. Buhari took
a cue and alluded to some elements around her ailing husband as “the hyenas”
and “the jackals,” hoping that they would soon be sent out of “his Kingdom.”
Mrs. Buhari,
who is presently in the United Kingdom to see her ailing husband, made the post
while responding to a proverbial Facebook post by the Senator representing
Kaduna Central District, Shehu Sani.
The federal
lawmaker had posted: “Prayer for the absent Lion King has waned. Until he is
back, they will fall over one another to be on the front row of the palace
temple. Now the hyenas and the jackals are scheming and talking to one another
in whispers, still doubting whether the Lion King will be back or not…
“It is the
wish of the hyenas and the jackals that the Lion King never wakes up or come
back so that they can be kings. It is the prayers of the weak animals that the
Lion King comes back to save the kingdom from the hyenas, the wolves and other
predators.”
Responding
to the comments also proverbially, She said: “God has answered the prayers of
the weaker animals. The hyenas and the jackals will soon be sent out of the
kingdom. We strongly believe in the prayers and support of the weaker animals.”
Mrs. Aisha’s
remarks attracted some comments from her followers on Facebook, wishing her
husband a quick recovery.
The First
Lady had returned to the UK last week after an earlier trip last month after
which Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose claimed that she was denied access to
the President by an alleged cabal around him.
Upon her
return to Nigeria then, Mrs. Buhari had said he was recovering well and that
the President expressed appreciation to Nigerians praying for him.
In a related
development, Fayose has asked the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to invoke
Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution by declaring the nation’s number one
citizen unfit to rule, saying he has become a bad business for the cabal that
allegedly imposed him on Nigerians.
He claimed
that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the presidency cabal were in a
dilemma over the return or otherwise of the President following his current
state of health.
Guardian reported that in the
meantime, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has shunned a Kano-based group,
Muhammadu Buhari Legacy Implementation Initiatives, that was campaigning that
the 2019 presidency must only go the ailing leader.
Irked by the
message of the campaigners who were on a courtesy visit to the secretariat of
the ACF in Kaduna, the Arewa leaders were short of giving a marching order to
their visitors, saying: “ACF is not a partisan group.”
Earlier, the
leader of the team, Alhaji Ado Mohammed, noted: “After Muhammadu Buhari was
elected President in 2015, we decided that we should go round the whole country
to implement his legacies, assisting him from outside the government.”
President
Muhammadu Buhari had flown to London 63 days ago to resume medical treatment
after an earlier round early this year.
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