By our reporter| The Presidency on Tuesday night said it is unnecessary for President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit power to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
President Buhari departed the Presidential Villa Abuja earlier on Tuesday for London on a routine medical check-up.
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu who made the assertion when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, explained that the President has not contravened the laws of the land by not transmitting power to Professor Osinbajo while away from the country for a number of days.
“He (Buhari) will continue from wherever he is,” Shehu said when asked if the President had transferred duties to the vice president.
“The requirement of the law is that the President is going to be absent in the country for 21 days and more, then that transmission is warranted. In this particular instance, it is not warranted,” he added.
Shehu stressed that there was no emergency for the President to travel to London, insisting that the President was not sick in any way.
According to him, it was just a routine medical check-up just as he had done in the past.
The Presidency had on Sunday said President Buhari was expected back in the country in the second week of April.
Before he embarked on the trip, Buhari earlier on Tuesday met with the service chiefs where he directed them to identify the leaders of bandits and kidnappers and take them out to restore confidence in the areas affected.
President Buhari has since assumption of office embarked on several trips to the United Kingdom to seek medical care.
This, however, is his first trip to the UK since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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