Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly given a timeline that he may resign if he fails to recover from his undisclosed illness.
The President left Nigeria for London on May 7 on a medical follow up, leaving the office for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
Independent reports that, though the president has made immense improvements in the last couple of weeks, he has told one of his close aides that if he doesn’t recover by a specific date, he will tender his resignation letter.
According to the newspaper, which reportedly spoke to the Presidential aide, contrary to the views by many, the president is not desperate to cling on to power but he is being advised by doctors to continue with the treatment while Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo presides over the affairs of the nation.
It also reported that though some aides of the president tried to bypass the acting president in order to get to the president, the president directed them to relate with the acting president who is presently in charge of the affairs of the nation.
It quoted the Presidential aide as saying that the fact that the decision of the president to direct all state matters to the acting president has greatly contributed to the remarkable progress the president has made in the last couple of weeks.
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Posted: at 10-08-2017 06:42 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
livingstone80 at 10-08-2017 06:50 AM (7 years ago) (m)
No no and no,stay don't resign,I blame people that vote you in! please before you do that, Grant us our republic of biafra!we are tired of evil government of nigeria!
Posted: at 10-08-2017 06:50 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
The TWO words (AFRICA/LEADERSHIP) just don't appear to go well together.
Whilst other leaders around the WORLD appear to be getting on with things after an ELECTION, we spend the next FOUR YEARS trying to GET OUR ACT TOGETHER.
In KENYA they are now SLAUGTHERING each other because they are UNHAPPY with the ELECTION RESULT?
It is now - EMBARRASSING.
Posted: at 10-08-2017 07:58 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
I blame Tinubu for all this mess. What a calamity!!! The governors that visited you recently came back home with a fake smile that you OK except that you now taking some vitamins. Buhari why telling us: IF?
Posted: at 10-08-2017 08:40 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
THE FIRST GOOD THING COMING FROM YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THIS REGIME, IF BUHARI RESIGN NIGERIA WILL GO BACK TO THE ERA OF JONATHAN MAYBE EVEN WORSE. ALTHOUGH OSIBAJO IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN JONATHAN BUT HE IS NOT HARDEN ENOUGH TO HANDLE NIGERIA.
Posted: at 10-08-2017 09:09 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
THE FIRST GOOD THING COMING FROM YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THIS REGIME, IF BUHARI RESIGN NIGERIA WILL GO BACK TO THE ERA OF JONATHAN MAYBE EVEN WORSE. ALTHOUGH OSIBAJO IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN JONATHAN BUT HE IS NOT HARDEN ENOUGH TO HANDLE NIGERIA.
BUT HOW DOES THAT MAKE HIM A DISAPPOINTMENT? ZAKI, I BOW FOR YOU OOOO.....!!!
Posted: at 10-08-2017 09:16 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
THE FIRST GOOD THING COMING FROM YOUR MOUTH ABOUT THIS REGIME, IF BUHARI RESIGN NIGERIA WILL GO BACK TO THE ERA OF JONATHAN MAYBE EVEN WORSE. ALTHOUGH OSIBAJO IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN JONATHAN BUT HE IS NOT HARDEN ENOUGH TO HANDLE NIGERIA.
Just Listen To Yourself.Are You A Cow That You Need A Hardened President?Very Hopeless!Where Has Buhari's Hardened Style Of Leadership Taken Nigeria To?It Took Nigeria To Hospital And Took He Himself To Hospital Too.Very Sentimental Bunch Of People.Rubbish.No Hausa Man Will Rule Nigeria Again Till After We Must Have Survived The Shocks Of This Administration.Jonathan Is Way Better Than Buhari, Abacha And Babangida.Nawaa O!
Posted: at 10-08-2017 09:34 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Just Listen To Yourself.Are You A Cow That You Need A Hardened President?Very Hopeless!Where Has Buhari's Hardened Style Of Leadership Taken Nigeria To?It Took Nigeria To Hospital And Took He Himself To Hospital Too.Very Sentimental Bunch Of People.Rubbish.No Hausa Man Will Rule Nigeria Again Till After We Must Have Survived The Shocks Of This Administration.Jonathan Is Way Better Than Buhari, Abacha And Babangida.Nawaa O!
LISTEN I ALWAYS SAY IF JONATHAN WAS THE PRESIDENT OF ANY WESTERN WORLD HE WOULD PERFORM BETTER THAN THESE IDIOTS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WHY BECAUSE THEY HAVE STRONG INSTITUTIONS BUT NIGERIA DOES NOT HAVE ANY STRONG INSTITUTIONS SO WE NEED A HARDEN AND A FEARLESS MAN TO BUILD THOSE INSTITUTIONS IMAGINE THE CHAOS THAT WAS GOING ON WHEN YARADUA WAS AWAY AND SICK JONATHAN DIDNT EVEN HAVE A VOICE THE ANTONNY GENERAL THEN WAS EVEN MORE POWERFUL THAN THE VICE PRESIDENT, BUT NOW BUHARI HAS MADE THAT INSTITUTION STRONGER, THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS LACK OF STRONG INSTITUTIONS EUROPE, AMERICA THEY ALL HAVE DICTATORS THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT ITS THE INSTITUTIONS THAT IS THEIR DICTATORS NOT THE PRESIDENT BUT UNFORTUNATELY MANY NIGERIANS DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT INSTITUTIONS IS EVERY POOR COUNTRIES IN THIS WORLD LACK TWO MAJOR THINGS WEAK INSTITUTIONS AND VERY VERY WEAK TAXATION SYSTEM IMAGINE NIGERIA HAS ONE OF THE LOWEST TAX RATE IN THE WORLD JUST 6 PERCENT AND YOU WANT TO DEVELOP HOW?
Posted: at 10-08-2017 10:03 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming