BUHARI SHOULD NOT REST, HE SHOULD RESIGN- Umar Hassan Esq

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"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach.Once we leave it,we can never return”-Nicolas Boileau-Despereaux

President Muhammadu Buhari announced soon after returning from a medical leave lasting a month and 19 days that Acting President Yomi Osinbajo was going to continue in that capacity as he still needed to ‘rest’.
I totally understand the need for that as a lot of us already knew he was battling something serious for the Presidency to keep the nature of his ailment under wraps. If it were a medical condition not worth losing any sleep over, I trust Femi Adesina to have disclosed it to us in a bid to allay fears,dispel mischief and assure us we weren’t sold damaged goods. But what we kept getting instead were updates on test results and who was visiting.
Mr Lai Mohammed as the publicity secretary of the Action Congress in 2009 demanded that the then Minister of Information updated Nigerians daily on the state of President Yar’adua’s health. It is ironic that in consonance with the hypocrisy we have now grown accustomed to, he didn’t do so when Buhari was away.
Soon after the President arrived 10 hours late to an APC Presidential campaign rally in Delta state, reports surfaced complete with a medical report on how the President was been treated for acute prostrate gland cancer at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria in Kaduna state. Nobody took them serious and we all waved them off as one of the PDP’s numerous antics at fighting off its most potent opposition ever. It felt like a desperate move at a most desperate time but in the present circumstance,those reports deserve a lot more attention than they got then.
Governor Ayo Fayose and others that warned us to choose life over death and not vote a man that could die in office now seem special recipients of messages from above. What we have to work with suggests we have a 74 year old President who suffers from an ailment grave enough for his doctors to refuse to release him before his test results are out and also grave enough to be kept secret from everyone.
If Buhari is half the man almost everyone thought he was, he would have tendered his resignation and gone on to cater full time to his health. If not for anything but for his love for this great nation.
The Buhari sold to Nigerians was one who believed we deserved the best from our leaders and one who was modest, contented and didn’t deem the Presidency a do-or-die affair.
A lot of those who clapped back at Governor Fayose back then actually vouched for his integrity by claiming the Buhari they knew wouldn’t spend an extra day in office if his age or health would constitute a hindrance to the effective discharge of his duties.That doesn’t seem to be the case.
In the end he is no different from the other politicians out there who would cling onto power at all costs. He is not more honorable than your average Nigerian politician who would rather die on the sick bed in his office than relinquish power. I saw a recent photo of the ex-Taraba state governor on a wheel chair and I wondered if Tarabans were actually waiting for the man to get well and resume in office.
Buhari’s man of integrity toga only makes it difficult to rationalize his reluctance to step down. He cannot claim to worry about what would become the fate of Nigerians if he does so as the acting President has proved more than equal to the task with the yeoman’s job he has done so far.
Virtually every poll I saw online ended with the majority wanting Osinbajo to continue in a substantive capacity. The Ag.President’s surprise visit to the Murtala Mohammed International airport Lagos to inspect facilities gave a lot of us an insight into what it felt like to have a vibrant leader on the good side of age.
And talking about age,the President himself has admitted it would limit his capabilities in honouring his bond with the people. Add that to his health state and you have a man who is guaranteed to serve us at a minimal capacity. This ought to have been the clincher if indeed he has sat down to consider towing the path of honour.
The theory that the profligacy of the PDP is responsible for all of our current problems has been disproved by none other than his Vice-President who needed just the amount of time the President was away to pay strategic visits to the Niger-Delta to meet the right people and pull the right strings in a more diplomatic approach a lot of us feared a ‘hard man’ like PMB wasn’t capable of adopting to ensure none of our oil installations were bombed ever since. He pursued rigorous enforcement of the CBN policy on foreign exchange and thanks to that its A lot of us remember even without this new policy,he was able to help the Naira claw back 14 points during President Buhari’s first medical leave.
The President’s performance quite sincerely has been below par and it would be better to leave and have Nigerians attribute it to whatever reason his honourable act propels them towards, most likely illness than to give them less than they deserve.


Umar Sa’ad Hassan Esq is a lawyer based in Kano.
He can be reached on Twitter:@alaye26
Email:uhassan077@gmail.com


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Well said.

But sit-tight-leadership spirit we have in Africa won't allow him do so.

Its a pity!

Buhari isn't going to resign.
U know y?Cos he doesn't have any atom of integrity in him.
B4 d elections,this same man told us he had only 1m in his acct yet it came out 4 of his children were schooling in expensive schools in d UK.
He said he had only 1 house each in Kaduna and Daura,yet it turned out he had estates in Abuja,properties in Portharcourt and numerous other properties.
He said he's fighting corruption but is surrounded by very corrupt ppl like Amaechi,Buratai,Dambazzau,Fashola,Abba Kyari,Babachir Lawal etc.
He is just like them all,a lying,power hungry,murderous,religious extremist politician.

meanwhile, order your scripts below or check my signature

BMC nairaland branch no go agree, waiting go happen to their #250,000/month...

Abokii with Afonjas blood!
Buhari is risen.

he will be going back to London soon to die again.

Guy, things are not straight, Nigeria is complicated. The Buhari we see can resign knowing that Nigeria would be under a capable hand, but his brothers would become restive. He has that to sought out.

Meanwhile, we need a senior to put the acting president in check and ensure that the selective fight against corruption is sustained and probably graduate to an idea control system for prevention and treatment.

sdindan:
Abokii with Afonjas blood!

Buhari is risen.


he will be going back to London soon to die again.

Can we discuss national issues without sounding like this?

State funeral loading

That should be the appropriate thing to do but then the cabals will not have that they would rather want to keep him there even if it kills him..

He should go and force him to resign na! Its not about the President alone, rather, Nigerians that supported and voted for him.
Haters can keep hating, hating is allowed.

God bless Nigeria

God bless my President

the Bible said "the Devil you know is better than the Angel you don't know ".

Nigerians this is the case of Buhari .

[quote author=BarristerNG post=54512898] BUHARI SHOULD NOT REST, HE SHOULD RESIGN- Umar Hassan Esq

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President Muhammadu Buhari announced soon after returning from a medical leave lasting a month and 19 days that Acting President Yomi Osinbajo was going to continue in that capacity as he still needed to ‘rest’.
I totally understand the need for that as a lot of us already knew he was battling something serious for the Presidency to keep the nature of his ailment under wraps. If it were a medical condition not worth losing any sleep over, I trust Femi Adesina to have disclosed it to us in a bid to allay fears,dispel mischief and assure us we weren’t sold damaged goods. But what we kept getting instead were updates on test results and who was visiting.
Mr Lai Mohammed as the publicity secretary of the Action Congress in 2009 demanded that the then Minister of Information updated Nigerians daily on the state of President Yar’adua’s health. It is ironic that in consonance with the hypocrisy we have now grown accustomed to, he didn’t do so when Buhari was away.
Soon after the President arrived 10 hours late to an APC Presidential campaign rally in Delta state, reports surfaced complete with a medical report on how the President was been treated for acute prostrate gland cancer at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria in Kaduna state. Nobody took them serious and we all waved them off as one of the PDP’s numerous antics at fighting off its most potent opposition ever. It felt like a desperate move at a most desperate time but in the present circumstance,those reports deserve a lot more attention than they got then.
Governor Ayo Fayose and others that warned us to choose life over death and not vote a man that could die in office now seem special recipients of messages from above. What we have to work with suggests we have a 74 year old President who suffers from an ailment grave enough for his doctors to refuse to release him before his test results are out and also grave enough to be kept secret from everyone.
If Buhari is half the man almost everyone thought he was, he would have tendered his resignation and gone on to cater full time to his health. If not for anything but for his love for this great nation.
The Buhari sold to Nigerians was one who believed we deserved the best from our leaders and one who was modest, contented and didn’t deem the Presidency a do-or-die affair.
A lot of those who clapped back at Governor Fayose back then actually vouched for his integrity by claiming the Buhari they knew wouldn’t spend an extra day in office if his age or health would constitute a hindrance to the effective discharge of his duties.That doesn’t seem to be the case.
In the end he is no different from the other politicians out there who would cling onto power at all costs. He is not more honorable than your average Nigerian politician who would rather die on the sick bed in his office than relinquish power. I saw a recent photo of the ex-Taraba state governor on a wheel chair and I wondered if Tarabans were actually waiting for the man to get well and resume in office.
Buhari’s man of integrity toga only makes it difficult to rationalize his reluctance to step down. He cannot claim to worry about what would become the fate of Nigerians if he does so as the acting President has proved more than equal to the task with the yeoman’s job he has done so far.
Virtually every poll I saw online ended with the majority wanting Osinbajo to continue in a substantive capacity. The Ag.President’s surprise visit to the Murtala Mohammed International airport Lagos to inspect facilities gave a lot of us an insight into what it felt like to have a vibrant leader on the good side of age.
And talking about age,the President himself has admitted it would limit his capabilities in honouring his bond with the people. Add that to his health state and you have a man who is guaranteed to serve us at a minimal capacity. This ought to have been the clincher if indeed he has sat down to consider towing the path of honour.
The theory that the profligacy of the PDP is responsible for all of our current problems has been disproved by none other than his Vice-President who needed just the amount of time the President was away to pay strategic visits to the Niger-Delta to meet the right people and pull the right strings in a more diplomatic approach a lot of us feared a ‘hard man’ like PMB wasn’t capable of adopting to ensure none of our oil installations were bombed ever since. He pursued rigorous enforcement of the CBN policy on foreign exchange and thanks to that its A lot of us remember even without this new policy,he was able to help the Naira claw back 14 points during President Buhari’s first medical leave.
The President’s performance quite sincerely has been below par and it would be better to leave and have Nigerians attribute it to whatever reason his honourable act propels them towards, most likely illness than to give them less than they deserve.


Umar Sa’ad Hassan Esq is a lawyer based in Kano.
He can be reached on Twitter:@alaye26
Email:uhassan077@gmail.com


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www.barristerNG.com for more.[/quote




Don't you have any form of sickness in your own body? Have you resigned?

He won't resign because he lacks integrity. He will rather die in that office. It is now clear that what has put Nigeria into recession is buhari's decisions, indecisions and above all his Almighty body language.

Supported.

May tribal biases not continue to plunge our nation backward.

However this statement is not completely true:
"The Buhari sold to Nigerians was one who believed we deserved ,... contented and didn’t deem the Presidency a do-or-die affair"

He never said being president was never a do-or-die-affair, only Jonathan did.

BarristerNG:

Can we discuss national issues without sounding like this?

OK! Happy Sunday.

Bubu abeg no resign..
Forget all this media propagandists from osibanjo media team..

We are not buying osibanjo presidency.. they want to bring him from backdoor..

Being sick shows you're human.. and by his grace you will recover..

Aha.. this people wicked..

Man wey dey breath fine.. still recuperating..they just the shout resign up and down..

Abeg ijaws stay out of this resignation propaganda..
Dunno about ibos..

Let dem dem continue..
Man dey alive dey wish am death.. he come back.. they echo resign..

How low and desperate can people get..
All for power.. make dem fit pride sophistication.

I hail..

BarristerNG:


Can we discuss national issues without sounding like this?

if it was written by an Easterner it would have been rubbished and dismissed as pained IPOB loser, etc without any attention to any of the issues raised, if you want national issues discussed without sounding like that then start from those do what i said above

dokyOloye:
Buhari isn't going to resign.
U know y?Cos he doesn't have any atom of integrity in him.
B4 d elections,this same man told us he had only 1m in his acct yet it came out 4 of his children were schooling in expensive schools in d UK.
He said hnd Daura,yet it turned out he had estates in Abuja,properties in Portharcourt and numerous other properties.
He said he's fighting corruption but is surrounded by very corrupt ppl like Amaechi,Buratai,Dambazzau,Fashola,Abba Kyari,Babachir Lawal etc.
He is just like them all,a lying,power hungry,murderous,religious extremist politician.

He even submitted a fake ssce result.... nice corruption fighter.