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Buhari hands over to Osinbajo, jets out to UK
By Dayo Badmus,
President, Muhammadu Buhari has handed over to the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to embark on a two-week medical vacation.
The President Buhari handed over to the VP just before he departed Abuja for London, the United Kingdom on Sunday, March 6, 2022.
Though, there was no inking if President Buhari had written the National Assembly to formally transmit power to Osinbajo, he said the “Vice-President is in charge’’
The President told State House correspondents before departing for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, that there would be no vacuum as a result of his absence, saying he has capable hands to run the government.
“Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will be in charge while I’m away. 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 is in charge and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and then the Chief of Staff. So I have no problem,’’ President Buhari was quoted as saying while he jetted out of the country.
Buhari had on Friday returned to Abuja after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at 50 in Nairobi, Kenya, on the invitation of Kenyan President.
On the ability of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling political party, to conduct a successful national convention, President Buhari expressed the optimism that it had the capacity to organize the convention as scheduled.
“Well, they should wait and see. How did we come as a party to take power from the ruling party (PDP) who had been there before us for so many years? So we have the capacity, everything will be alright,’’ he said in response to reporters’ questions.
