Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s seeming absence from important affairs of the state, a civil society group known as ‘Change the Change Coalition, on Thursday, promised to stage mass protests if the President fails to attend the next Federal Executive Council meeting.
The last two FEC meetings have been presided by President Buhari’s vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
National Coordinator of the group, Mazi Bismarck Oji, said in a press conference organised in Enugu that President Buhari should transit power officially to Osinbajo if he could no longer cope with the rigours of office, warning that it would mobilize Nigerians for a mass protest if the president plays truancy by making himself absent at the next meeting.
Oji feared a repeat of the intrigues that bedevilled late President Musa Yar’Adua in the days he was sick before succumbing to death, stating that President Buhari should do the needful by taking a break from office to go attend to his health.
“What we have before us is another Yar’Adua scenario – the President has been absent from at least two FEC meetings consecutively.
“Firstly, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, told us the President was attending to more important matters and delegated the Vice President to chair the meeting.
“What could be more important than chairing the weekly FEC meeting, more so when his attendance would have allayed fears about his health status?
“Secondly, Lai Mohammed told us the President would be working from home.
“That is an insult on the intelligence of Nigerians and another episode in the theatre of the bizarre which this administration has turned governance into.