dom was not President Muhammadu Buhari’s first foreign trip. In fact, the President has so far travelled to as many as 33 countries since June 3, 2015, according to an exclusive report published by Saturday PUNCH on April 20. But it is the first time he has left the country in a manner that left millions of Nigerians looking askance at the Presidency.
But the opposition Peoples Democratic Party described Buhari’s action as condemnable, accusing him of allegedly abandoning governance when the nation was under the weight of “grave security and security challenges,” a claim the Buhari Media Organisation, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, said reflected the opposition party’s tendency to drag the country into needless controversies as President Buhari “is the first President to start adhering...
A lawyer, Mr. Chuks Nwachukwu, said that Nigeria was not a country to be ruled by proxy or governed from anywhere out it, adding that the nation could not be led by an “absentee President.” Oshoma explained, “Sub-section Two was added to Section 145 because of the Yar’Adua crisis where we had a lacuna and the National Assembly had to resort to the Doctrine of Necessity. But in this case, I have listened to Garba Shehu saying that the President can act anywhere outside this country, provided that it is not more than 21 days.
“So, let us not stand other Constitution on its head; it is clear enough. Nobody is saying that the President should not travel but the proper thing should be done.” He added, “The President is going away for 10 days and the government that wants to do things differently, that preaches change and wants to take the country to the next level cannot inform the people about what the President is going to do. It is a fact that the President had been to London for medicals and the campaigns are just over; it is easy to put one and two together and conclude appropriately that the President went for a medical checkup in London.
Private visit? Did he fly British Airways to London or a planeload of family and friends at taxpayers expense? Is this what you call democracy ?
Nobody in Nigeria (zoo) with moral guts to question the activities of m buhari, so he can do whatever he likes and get away with it.
Impeachment proceedings would have been started to salvage the sacrosanctity and superiority of our constitution
My funny submission technically, if presidency put it to arguments, it may win bcos it can submit our embassy&Nig Airforce-1 is Nig anywhere