PRESIDENT BUHARI SHOULD RESIGN NOW:
By Sir Don Ubani; KSC, JP
Okwubunka of Asa
Executive Director, Centre For Equity And Eradication Of Rural Poverty
30th April, 2017.
Today is not only the last Sunday of April 2017, it is also the last day of the fourth month of the year. We have only eight months left in the year 2017.
As a Christian Knight, civil society activist and patriotic citizen of Nigeria, if there is no day I should be bold enough to say the truth, no matter how bitter it would sound, this Sunday is an exception.
Our President, Muhammadu Buhari, is sick and incapacitated! Thrice he had consecutively failed to show up in the Federal Executive Council!!
Nigerians know General Buhari as a very committed islamic adherent. Any sickness that is capable of deterring him from observing his Juma'at service on any Friday is one that is capable of taking any life. Buhari is so incapacitated that he could not make himself available for last Friday's Juma'at service.
Like his wife; Aisha, had long shouted aloud, a cabal has taken over the Presidency. The cabal does not give a damn to Buhari's health. It is only interested in what it can make out of power.
By the calculations of the cabal, taking Buhari out of the country for medical treatment again would mean playing into the hands of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo, who had breathed fresh air into the Presidency while Buhari was away on medical vacation in the United Kingdom for fifty days.
We have been informed that the terribly ailing President had requested that official files be brought to him for his actions.
The questions are, who is sure the President is in a good state to treat files? Who is sure it is not the cabal that treats the files in the name of Mr President without the latter knowing that there was even a movement of any file?
As things are now, it will take a very long process of conviction before Nigerians would believe that the Vice President is even allowed access to Mr President.
The State of health of the President can best be imagined through the spontaneity of the retort of the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF; David Babachir Lawal, when he questioned, who
is the Presidency?
Our Constitution dictates that in a situation like Buhari's, the Federal Executive Council, on a two-third majority, can initiate the process of easing him out.
But I do not believe President Buhari should wait only to be disgraced out of office. He can toe the path of honour by resigning now.
We are groaning under the excruciating pressure and pains of recession. A Buhari Presidency as sickly as it is now will surely worsen our crisis. Please, let Mr President resign.

Executive Director.