Buhari Promises To Resign If He Doesn’t Recover Soon

President Muhammad Buhari may resign if
he does not recover from his ailment
soon, sources have reported.



According to Independent, a Presidency
source has disclosed that President
Muhammad Buhari will pass the baton to
his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, if he does not
recover from his ailment soon.



The President has been in the United
Kingdom for the better part of the year
treating an undisclosed ailment, much to
the chagrin of a large part of the
population, including a good number of
his supporters.



Independent reports the source to have
said, “The president is not desperate to
cling on to power if his health cannot
carry him.



I can tell you authoritatively that
he has given a timeline that if he doesn’t
recover fully on a specific date, he will file
in his resignation letter and if you know
President Buhari very well, he meant what
he said.




“That is why Nigerians who love the
president and his efforts in restoring
Nigeria’s lost glory should continue to
pray for his quick recovery. It will be to
our disservice if he dies as some people
are wishing him”, he said.



Independent also reported another
source as stating that before the President
embarked on his May trip to the United
Kingdom, he had wanted to dispatch a
resignation letter to the National Assembly
but a retired general from Taraba state
prevailed on him not to do so.



Chief Ebenezer Babatope, former Minister
of Transport and chieftain of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP), said there was no
need for the President to resign as the
leading opposition party will prefer if APC
brings him to re-contest election in 2019,
so as to guarantee their victory at the
polls.



“I don’t think we should compound
Nigeria’s problem by asking for the
president’s resignation.



First of all, it is not
of his own making that he is sick. All of us
must have been sick at one time or the
other.




If we want to help Nigeria succeed,
let us pray for him to recover and come
back to do his job.



“We in the PDP are not bothered by his
resignation at all.



We are even praying that
he should come back and re-contest in
2019 because we know that we are going
to beat him.



But it doesn’t serve anybody’s
interest to ask him to resign. Those doing
so are just wasting their time”, he said to
Independent.