Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode has declared
President Muhammadu Buhari unfit to continue to function as the
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Fani
Kayode advised the ailing president to give up and take a bow.
According to the PDP chieftain, the absence of Buhari at the fourth Federal
Executive Council meeting in a row was a clear indication that the president’s
health had worsened and no longer fit to discharge his duties as the number one
citizen of Nigeria.
In an article entitled, The Resurrection of Corpocracy, the
former minister warned that what happened to the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua might be knocking at the door of Buhari.
Yar Adua died on May 5, 2010 after a long protracted battle
with Acute Pericarditis at the age of 58.
“Whoever is holding this poor, frail, sick and elderly man to ransom and keeping him in the Presidential Villa, probably against his will, is wicked and ungodly and he or she is committing a grave sin against God and the Nigerian people,” FFK wrote.
“It is clear that the President is no longer fit to govern. It is obvious that his time is almost up. It is self-evident that for him the bell is tolling.
“It is incontrovertible that those around him have held him captive and are indulging in what I once described in an essay that I wrote seven years during the last days of President Umaru Yar’adua as “corpocracy”. The essay was titled”Corpocracy: A Gift from Umaru to the Modern World”.
“This is what happened during Yar’adua’s last four months on earth whilst he still had one foot in the land of the living and it is happening to Buhari today,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has explained
that president Muhammadu Buhari was absent at the Federal Executive Council,
FEC, based on the advice of his doctors.
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BUHARI’S HEALTH
ReplyDeleteDont even dream to exploit his condition. Read this. It is the model this democracy you now know better than everybody is anchored on. We will fight you to every constitutional fact.
US presidents have been sick while in office.Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated throughout his presidency. Yet He remained in office till the end of his term in 1921.Diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-1945) still served for twelve good years though he could not stand or walk without support. Using a wheelchair in private, he never disclosed the full extent of his health condition.
Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) suffered heart attack in 1955 as a result of which he was hospitalized for several weeks. He also did a surgery some months later to treat Crohn’s disease and in late 1957 suffered another stroke that made him temporarily unable to speak. Yet he went ahead to win a second term after that.
John F Kennedy (1961 - 1963) had a chronic bone disease and was hospitalized nine times in his short two and a half year presidency but this was never revealed to the American public. George Bush (1989 – 1993) vomited and then fainted in front of cameras in 1992 while on a visit in Japan and heaven did not fall in America.
Now if about five of American presidents have been sick in office, what is wrong if Nigeria’s current president is also sick? Is he made of iron? We are also tempted to ask, if Buhari dies, will it be the first time that a president will die?
Eight American presidents have died in office. Four died of natural causes: William Henry Harrison (1841), Zachary Taylor (1850), Warren Harding (1923) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945). Four others were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901) and John F. Kennedy (1963).
The truth is that if Buhari dies today, his name will be written in letters of gold. It is the death of a hero primus inter pareil and the death of a reformer nulli secundus. Buhari is a dogged corruption fighter who came to rescue Nigerians from yam thieves. If he dies today he will leave an indellible record, an achievement difficult to match by his successor and a standard that is bound to create a yawning lacuna.
Nigerians also need to show sympathy and understanding as their president battles with a poor health condition. They should not allow people whose hearts are filled with hate to brainwash and indoctrinate them.
Good write up. I will never pray for the dead of any person talk more of Mr President. Afterall we all shall die someday at God's appointed time. But I am tempted to ask if these same people were not the ones prowling from north to south asking for the full health details to Nigerians of the late Umaru Ya'radua when he was in this similar conditions. We are short to see that what you throw at someone will eventually find a way to come back to you. This thesame President and his Lie Lie Mohammed has at one time asked for President Ya'radua to resign because of his hailing health conditions. In as much as I dont and will never pray for, neither take advantage of someone's sick condition, it should be on record that such health challenges are not peculiar to one person alone. Let no one, I repeat no one take delight in the suffering of others because on this earth we share, there is way these things go round, it might be your good day today, but you cant tell what your tomorrow may hold. Wish others what you will wish yourself. Happy a great day Nigerians.
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