Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
he cannot say for sure that Lai Mohammed, minister of information, Adamu Adamu,
his education counterpart, and Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President
Muhammadu Buhari, are in their best of behaviour this Ramadan.
Osinbajo, who spoke when Buhari
hosted him and some ministers to iftar (breaking of fast) at the presidential
villa on Monday, said some reasons make him look forward to Ramadan but those
reasons are “are now being seriously challenged”.
According to him, one of the
reasons is that his friends are “far less troublesome during the Ramadan”, but
he cannot say the same for Mohammed, Adamu, and Kyari this year.
Osinbajo said another challenge
is that Buhari presided over the longest federal executive council (FEC)
meeting in the council’s history this Ramadan.
He said he looks forward to
Ramadan because FEC meetings are shorter while the period lasts but “we
shouldn’t expect anymore that meeting will necessary be short during the
Ramadan.”
The number two citizen urged the
attendees to use the Ramadan season to remind themselves that their mandate is
to secure the welfare of Nigerians.
“Mr President, I must say that
there are some reasons I had always look forward to the Ramadan session. But
some of those reasons are now being seriously challenged,” Osinbajo said.
“The first of those reasons is
that during the Ramadan meetings are usually very short. But, unfortunately,
last Wednesday Mr President seemed to have destroyed that very good notion by
taking us through the longest FEC meeting in the history of the federal
executive council.
“So, we shouldn’t expect anymore
that meeting will necessary be short during the Ramadan.
“The second is that some of my
friends are far less troublesome during the Ramadan. People like Lai Mohammed,
Abba Kyari, Adamu Adamu they are usually very well behaved during the Ramadan.
But I’m not even sure that that is true anymore.
“So, I think that all we can
truly expect now from the session is possibility of what it was meant to do
which is to remind us of some of our responsibilities to ourselves as brothers
and to our fellow men/women especially our roles as leaders.
“I think is auspicious that this
particular Ramadan falls at the eve of the new term in office.
“So, it is an opportunity for us
to remind ourselves over the core mandates which is the welfare and security of
majority of our people.”
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