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Chief of staff Abba Kyari and VP, Pro Osinbajo.



For about ten days now, the Nigerian president, President Muhammadu Buhari has travelled to the United Kingdom for personal reasons. Yet, public funds had been used for these personal reasons. Being the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari had not travelled alone, neither has he boarded a public plane and fly on economic class for this strip, he had gone- as usual- with all the paraphernalia of the presidency- with public funds. For reasons unknown to many, the president did not fully handed power over to his vice (or so we believe). A couple of days back the chief of staff to the president, Abba Kyari took some bills that needed to be signed into law to the United Kingdom, for the president’s assent. Yet, he too had not travelled alone. You can imagine the number of aids and assistants that must have accompanied him on this fruitless mission.



Part of the president’s campaign promises is that once he becomes the president, he would stop the political class from going abroad for medical treatments. Yet he has travelled abroad so far for medical reasons than most or all other politicians, all these trips are with public funds. What will he cost our president to receive his medical treatment here in Nigeria? Are Nigerian hospitals that bad that even the president that has been telling Nigerians to patronize Nigerian products is not patronizing Nigeria himself? What example and impression is the president giving the youths and the rest of Nigerians concerning patronizing Nigeria made goods and services?

All that aside.



Constitutionally speaking, what is the role of the vice president in the absence of the president? Is the vice president not empowered by the law to act in the president’s stead on matters of the state in the absence of the president? If yes, why is the chief of staff taking bills from Nigeria to the UK for assent when the vice president could have done it at no cost at all? Or the Chief of staff to the president was already missing his boss after a few days and he wanted to use the excuse of signing the bill to see the president again? Was the VP consulted before this bill was taken abroad and must he personally travel with the bill? Or, why didn’t she just mail the bill to the president, isn’t that common sense? Couldn’t he have sent it through one of those international courier service deliveries at 100% cheaper rate? Oh, does he think that the information contained would be compromised? That’s foolish. If the British are interested in the content of the bill, they have enough microscopic surveillance cameras that sees everything even in the privacy of the president’s hospital suit in London, so they would have seen it all the same! I am just wondering! Our political class definitely is not thinking the modern way!



Is it even Abba Kyari’s constitutional duties to take the bill to the president? Let’s consider the Chief of staff’s duties according to the Nigerian constitution: ‘The Chief of staff to the president manages the president’s schedule, correspondence and any other duty that may be assigned to him by the president says the state house website. These duties though includes getting a bill passed by the national assembly to the president does not exactly said that he must physically present it to the president, especially when the president is in diaspora.



President Muhammadu Buhari, President of The Fed. Rep of Nigeria.



A member of the house of representatives from Egbeda federal constituency, Honourable Akin Alabi, the owner and founder of Nairabet (one of the most popular sports betting platforms in Nigeria) supported Abba’s Kyari’s wild goose chase to London by saying that Abba Kyari is the “assistant to the president” while Prof Osinbajo is just a vice president. I was quite disappointed with this uninformed statement coming from a man that I respected. Let us ask honourable Akin Alabi to open that section in the Nigerian constitution where it was stated that the Chief of staff to the president is the “assistant to the president” while the VP is just a vice president. In his statement, Akin Alabi has shown that he is more concerned with party allegiance than standing with what is the truth. Even the VP himself had said that there is no ill feeling between him and his boss, the president so let’s hope that’s true.



It seems VP Osinbajo is the new target of this government. Apart from the London Bill Signing scandal, some of the VPs aides had been laid off “in order to cut cost” according to the [presidency. According to the news, the embattled aides had resumed to work last week with their tags but they had been denied access from entering into the premises of the state house by security operatives. It was said by the presidency that the VP office has more aides than the president himself and that the measure was taken to cut cost and save tax payers’ money. Tax payers’ money was definitely not taken into consideration when the cabal in this present government was travelling abroad for private businesses with tax payers’ money? Besides, has the aides of the other politicians too been sacked like they did to the VP?

What about the office of the first lady, has the retinue of security men, secretaries and assistants been laid off? As a Nigerian, I can’t see the essence of the office of the first lady. Since I have been old enough to know about politics (from 2005 upward), Nigerian first lady office has always been another useless white elephant project, another hole in our national pocket through which our national income is being wasted. From Late Mrs. Stella Obasanjo to Mrs. Turai Yar Adua, to the famous Dame Patience Jonathan and now to Mrs. Aishat Buhari, the office had always been another way of burning our national income which is not even enough to meet our needs.



Most of the policies and projects formulated and executed by this office have always been stillborn. Most of these projects and policies often die few weeks after inception. The few ones that manage to live never made it beyond the tenure of whoever instituted them, so what is the point of this office? By scrapping the whole useless office, did you how many millions this would save Nigeria monthly? Did you know how many companies this money would build and how many unemployed graduates that this would employ? Did you know how many children that the money allocated to the office of the first lady would feed, take off the streets and sent to school? Are we really addressing these issues or this is just another witch hunting?



Why did the presidency wait till now before it lay off the aides of the VP? Why weren’t these aides informed before instead of being allowed with the mentality of coming to work and to meet barred gates? Is this how to act and operate in a civilized world?

I think what is causing this VP witch-hunting is that perhaps, the VP made a suggestion that did not go down well with the president and maybe, just maybe, he had been warned to stop raising such points but he (the VP) had been persistent basically because he is a Christian and he cannot go against his conscience by keeping quiet. Probably this is why he is under fire right now. Or all these speculations are pointless and useless. If the VP says there’s no problem between him and his boss, maybe we should believe him. After all, he is a pastor and he cannot lie. Maybe nothing is truly wrong but the signs are too obvious to be ignore. I think something BIG is cooking and that READ MORE... https://heavenoasis..com/

Shey Den Tell You Say Mr VP Na NURTW Chairman Wey One Dullard From Daura Go Sack??

Another versions but long epistles

Summary pls

Buhari cannot sack Osinbajo. The Court already ruled on that on Obasanjo VS Atikuchukwu

Matthew 13:41-43 New International Version (NIV)
41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

Buhari has no powers to sack Osibanjo, however, Buhari has the powers to reduce Osibanjo to a mere 'clerk's in the presidency

How significant a vice president is depends on what powers the president delegates to him.

Atiku was a powerful politician from the North who had a formidable political structure, yet, Obasanjo tried to ride him, and he resisted.

In the case Osibanjo, he isnt a powerful politician, has no structure and only became vice president because Tinubu could not go for that position due to the unwritten political rule that the president and vice president cannot belong to one religion

Osibanjo has served his purpose, he was used as the bargaining chip to get the votes of Yorubas. Now, he is no longer of any value to Buhari

You are right.

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Buhari has no powers to sack Osibanjo, however, Buhari has the powers to reduce Osibanjo to a mere 'clerk's in the presidency

How significant a vice president is depends on what powers the president delegates to him.

Atiku was a powerful politician from the North who had a formidable political structure, yet, Obasanjo tried to ride him, and he resisted.

In the case Osibanjo, he isnt a powerful politician, has no structure and only became vice president because Tinubu could not go for that position due to the unwritten political rule that the president and vice president cannot belong to one religion

Osibanjo has served his purpose, he was used as the bargaining chip to get the votes of Yorubas. Now, he is no longer of any value to Buhari

Tinubu backed this shame & illegality.Now another Yoruba man has follow suit.Oh Nigeria!

Useless question

Click bait , useless write up ... Waste of time ...

Kikikikikiki, I laughed in Spanish language, how could you think president Buhari will sack his vice president, do you think VP is an ordinary man or just mere a worker under private company, anyway it is impossible to sack him

The president has no powers to sack the vice president, only the national assembly has that power through impeachment.

According to the constitution the president is not required to transfer power to his Vice, anytime he leaves Nigeria. He is only required to transmit power if he is going on an official holiday or if he is temporarily incapacitated or unavailable. Past presidents did not hand over to their vice anytime they went on foreign trips. In the same vain, I have not seen any governor transmit power to their deputy when the leave their states, even on holidays.

Why would he want to sack him
What a question

Who wrote that piece?!!!!! There's no correlation with the headline and body!!!!! Absolutely pointless!!!!!!!

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This one is just desperately looking for blog visits. If I hear say I click dat link!

The president and vice president were elected on a ticket together. Buhari can not sack Osinbajo. OP needs to stop being silly.

A huge pile of hogwash... Not worth the read

etrouble:
Buhari cannot sack Osinbajo. The Court already ruled on that on Obasanjo VS Atikuchukwu

Buhari does not obey court orders