The Presidency, including the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has been in covert turmoil over the mix-up on the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari who is currently on 10 days’ vacation in the United Kingdom. This is, particularly so, since the rumuor purporting the death of the President in London which nobody has confirmed while the Federal government has consistently refuted it.
The death rumour has triggered skeletal squabbles among the top notches of the APC leadership and certain officials of government attempting to work out a new power equation or better put, scheming a replacement pattern to fill the ‘death’ vacuum, if real. This has been generating apprehension and a new power struggle in the seat of power.
A reliable source revealed that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC National Leader, has ‘relocated’ to Abuja in the wake of the troubling specualations and emerging power struggles, part of which was a speculation of plot to compel Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, now Acting President, to resign in lieu of the supposed ‘vacancy’.
All these culminated into several political machinations which include an emergency meeting by APC governors, visit of the Inspector General of Police to London, alleged meeting by Northern elders, etc.
In the storm of all these, the Federal Government denied reports that that governors are set to meet in Abuja to deliberate on the health of President Buhari.
The FG also debunked that governors were also planning to send representatives to London to see the President.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made these denials while receiving members of the Presidential Initiative Committee on the North-East in Abuja.
The Minister noted that there was no need for the visit because the President was merely observing his leave as stated in the letter sent to the Senate on Thursday, January 19, 2017, which he requested 10 days vacation overseas.
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