The immediate past governor of
Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has berated the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
for persistently criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari over his ill-health.
Addressing a group of
journalists, Oshiomhole said he always doesn’t like to join issues with Fayose
as he (Fayose) does not really make sense.
Oshiomole maintained that the
President took the right step by transferring powers to his deputy, Yemi
Osinbajo before embarking on his medical vacation.
He stressed that despite the
mirage of criticism against the President by Fayose, some governors on the
Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can testify to the fact that
Buhari is actually sick.
According to Oshiomhole, “I don’t
like to discuss Fayose because when he makes such statements, it reminds me of
an Igbo proverb which says that if a responsible man is having his bath after a
hard days work and he removes his cloth in a local bathroom and a mad man
carries his cloth and the man bathing seeing that the mad man has carried your
cloth and you run out naked pursuing him. The people will see two naked people
running and they will say two mad men. So sometimes you just allow the mad man
to carry your cloths and go rather than joining him in his madness.
“That is my comment on Fayose.
One of my very good friends wrote something in the papers criticising the
pictures taken by the president and the APC governors. He was saying that may
be a broadcast would have been better.
“But I ask, if the head of a
family is sick and some people went to see him, first there is nothing unusual
about that to visit the sick in their sick bed or in their homes, to show that
you care. I believe most Nigerians are praying for the quick recovery of the
president, so if people go there and sat with the president and took a picture
it shows that yes the president is sick but it is not as bad as what people are
saying.
“Some were carrying rumours that he was on
life support but people have seen that at least that is not true. As at the
time he wrote that piece only APC governors visited but now some PDP governors
also went and I hope he will write another article.
“For me, the president has been
conscious of the provisions of the constitution and had complied in full with
the extant provisions of the constitution by admitting to the fact that for now
that he is ill, and he needs medication somewhere, that he has asked his
deputy, in line with the provisions of the constitution to act on his behalf.
“I don’t see how the president
can be much more transparent than that. I am happy that some PDP governors have
also gone to see him. but what many of us do not know is that there have been
governors who have been absent from their states for three months, even on
health grounds in PDP that I know, and they came back from those long medical
vacations to assume duties and today they are alive.
“So as they say the sick is not
necessary next and for me we should all continue in our honest prayers and pray
for the quick recovery of our president and not inhuman comments by some
persons. We had a president under the PDP who clearly was unable to even
recognise people and they were debating whether he signed a budget or he did
not sign a budget.
“But you know in this environment
people have short memory. Those who were very active then, purporting that the
president signed a budget which he was not in a position to sign, and mimicking
a voice in BBC, they are also talking now. Now we have a president who sat with
both PDP and APC governors and I think that closes the issue of the health of
the president.”
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ReplyDeleteMumu question no get answer
DeleteA sane person doesn't go strip at a local stream that mad men are home to. Unfortunately, your analogy is misplaced. The purported relevance lies in the fact that the protagonist of Chinua Achebe's "Short Story" is just days away from being honoured with a chieftaincy titled before the occurrence of what he is a victim of. Not enough time to lecture you, sorry.
ReplyDeleteDon't always mock somebody on health ground knowing fully well that nobody knows tomorrow. Pls, let's change our attitude
ReplyDeleteDon't always mock somebody on health ground knowing fully well that nobody knows tomorrow. Pls, let's change our attitude
ReplyDeleteWhy you doesn't listen or respond to him is because you have joined the group apc liers...and you doesn't know the truth.
ReplyDeletethe same man who called out then President YarAdua to resign over health issues today no where to be found after 3months plus as a president karma is really dealing with this northerners and their born to rule mentality
ReplyDeleteHow can a gorilla be responding to an intelligent charismatic man? Akwuya! Olosi!Elede!
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