Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
has expressed optimism President Muhammadu Buhari will serve out his tenure in
good health.
The president is away in London
attending to his health for the last seven weeks now but Osinbajo said prayers
are being offered everyday for him to recover and return to work.
He spoke at his official
residence in Abuja when he received a delegation of the Federal Capital
Territory Muslim community who paid him Sallah homage.
He said: “We are praying everyday, and we know that the Lord, God Almighty, who we serve, will bring our president back in good health.‘... And that he will serve this nation with the same determination and the same spirit of oneness; the same spirit that he has always served this nation from when he was a young man.
“He will serve this nation and complete the period of his service in good health, in good shape and our country will be the better for it.”
‘Nigeria’s unity not negotiable’
Osinbajo again declared that the
unity of the country is not negotiable, in reference to the clamour by the
Igbos for a state of Biafra and the reaction to that by northern youth asking
them to quit the North and return to the East.
“Our unity is not negotiable,” the acting president said adding: “We should make sure that we remain united in order to enjoy the resources God has blessed Nigeria with. So many nations envy what we have as a nation.”
According to him, apart from
bringing love and integrity as well as guaranteeing enjoyment of national
endowments, unity will also earn Nigeria respect in the global community.
The acting president reassured
that the present administration would do everything possible to sustain the
nation’s unity.
“Your ethnicity doesn’t matter, and that is why for us, unity is so important that we must work together to make sure that our country is able to take care of the millions of people we govern.
“God expects us to take care of the poor and those suffering to ensure that we use government resources only in such a way that it will be for the good of the majority of our people.”
Earlier, the FCT Minister,
Muhammad Musa Bello, who led the delegation, commended the security agencies as
well as religious and traditional rulers for their role in sustaining the peace
in the FCT.
The acting Chief Imam of the
National Mosque, Mohammad Kabir Adamu and the chairman of the Christian
Association of Nigeria, FCT Chapter, Reverend Samson Jonah, prayed for Buhari’s
quick recovery.
The clergymen, in their goodwill
messages, also commended Osinbajo for piloting the affairs of the countty well
in Buhari’s absence.
The event was attended by the
Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen, some members of the Federal
Executive Council, the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission Mr Ibrahim Magu and the Director-General of the Department of State
Security, Malam Lawal Daura.
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