Governors’ forum plans to send delegation to visit Buhari in UK
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) may send some governors to
the United Kingdom to visit President Muhammadu Buhari, except he
returns home between now and next week.
According to The Punch, the plan to send a delegation to the president was part of the discussion at the last governors’ meeting in Abuja, which ended in the early hours of Thursday, February 16.
A
source at the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
governors also decided to send a goodwill message to the president’s
family in Nigeria, hinting that the president might return home very
soon based on the information available to the governors.
He
explained that representatives of the NGF would have embarked on the UK
trip immediately but for the information pointing towards the president
may return anytime from now.
A governor, who was at the meeting, who
also spoke with one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity,
said said the governors supported the idea after they were informed
about the visit of the leadership of the National Assembly to the
president during the week.
A few weeks
ago, President Buhari had written to the Senate to inform the
legislators that he would proceed on medical vacation for 10 days and
that vice-President Yemi Osinbajo would act on his behalf as president
during his absence.
However the
president again wrote a letter to the National Assembly a day before he
was to resume, informing the lawmakers that he needed to extend his
leave in order to complete and get the results of some tests recommended
by his doctors.
Since the president’s
departure, some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) have been paying visits to him at the Abuja House in London, UK.
However, some Peoples Democratic Party
federal lawmakers have questioned the exclusion of opposition members in
the National Assembly delegation that recently paid Buhari a visit in
London.
The opposition lawmakers
expressed disappointment with the exclusion of PDP members in the
delegation even as one of the party’s members Ike Ekweremadu is the
Deputy Senate President.
Meanwhile, the youth wing of the PDP has
recommended that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Ayodele Fayose of
Ekiti states should visit President Buhari in London.
The
group which is also called the PDP Youth Frontier said visiting the
president was not the exclusive right of the APC members only.
They made this known on their twitter handle saying:
“Buhari health is not the APC internal affairs alone therefore PDP
youths recommending that Fayose and Wike should also visit him in
London.”
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