By our rporter| President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will preside over the nation’s affairs for two weeks while he is away on a medical trip to London in the United Kingdom.
Buhari, who made the disclosure while briefing reporters at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport before the presidential plane, Air Force 1, took off from the Presidential Wing, said he is not running the administration alone as other key officials including the vice president, the chief of staff, the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), and others are carried along.
“Well, I cannot claim to be doing the work alone. The government is fully represented; the vice president is there; constitutionally when I’m away, he’s in charge,” Buhari said on Sunday.
He also spoke about the forthcoming national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), expressing confidence that the event will be conducted smoothly.
He said, “Well, they should wait and see. How did we come as a party to take power from the ruling party who had been there before us for so many years? So, we have the capacity, everything will be alright.”
The President was earlier scheduled to embark on the trip to London from Nairobi, Kenya, where he attended the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 50th-anniversary event, but returned to Abuja abruptly last Friday.
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