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  • Buhari’s sickness consequentially affecting Nigeria’s health – Akande

    Buhari’s sickness consequentially affecting Nigeria’s health – Akande

    Former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s sickness is beginning to take its toll on the health of Nigeria as a nation.

    He therefore appealed to Nigerians to continue praying for his quick recovery in order to avert a looming crisis which the development could throw the nation into.

    Akande, also a former governor of Osun State made the appeal in a statement he issued on Monday. He said he knew the President was seriously ill when he did not show up in Kaduna last Saturday for the wedding ceremony of his grandson.

    The statement reads: “The health of the leader is intricately intertwined with the health of the nation. It is more so in a delicately fragile union of nations called Nigeria. I did not see President Buhari at the wedding of his grandson in Kaduna last Saturday. I was sad and I wept.

    “When last we met at the wedding of his daughter in Abuja last December, I complained to him that I was not happy about his stressful looks. His reply connoted some allusions to circumstances where an honest man fighting corruption is surrounded mostly by unpatriotic greedy ruling class. He felt painfully frustrated.

    “He assured me he would soon be going on vacation. I then knew that corruption has effectively been fighting back. And I prayed for Nigeria. That was why Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and I rushed to meet him in London in February this year when he was sick and could not return as scheduled from his vacation.

    The rest is history but we must appreciate that his poor health is already taking its toll on the health of Nigeria as a polity. “There are two challenges facing the country today. The first and the most critical is the health of the President which, unfortunately, is a development beyond his control and for which we did not prepare. The second is the disorder and lack of cohesion between the National Assembly and the Presidency.

    “These are two great red-flag dangers that have the potential of plunging the country into unprecedented chaos and of destabilising the gains of democracy since 1999,” he said.

     

  • In-Pictures: Buhari receives Tinubu, Akande, others in London

    In-Pictures: Buhari receives Tinubu, Akande, others in London

    In a strategic approach to douse the tension currently engulfing the nation over the state of his health, President Muhammadu Buhari has received the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC in London.

    The party leaders that met with the president includes; National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former interim chariman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande.

    Other top shots of the administration including the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara also confirmed speaking on phone with the president and gave assurances of his wellbeing.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the president spoke with the APC leaders at the Abuja House in London.

    TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the president had written the leadership of the National Assembly for an indefinite extension in his medical leave which was initially scheduled to end by Feb. 6.

    See pictures below:

    Buhari receives Tinubu, Akande, others in London

     

     

  • Buhari congratulates APC stalwart, Akande at 78

    Buhari congratulates APC stalwart, Akande at 78

    President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated elder statesman and founding Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Abdukareem Adebisi Akande, as he turns 78 years on Jan. 16.

    This congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president.

    Adesina said Buhari joined all members of the APC, friends and immediate family of the eminent leader in celebrating the birthday of Akande.

    The president noted with delight that Akande was one of the pillars of the opposition party that had successfully ensured a round victory and smooth transition to unseat an incumbent president in 2015.

    According to him, Akande’s wisdom, sacrifices, patriotism and commitment to the unity and development of Nigeria will always be remembered by posterity.

    Buhari affirmed that Akande’s present role in the APC as a strong, visionary leader, a reconciling voice, strategist and stabiliser had paid up substantially in the enormous challenge of healing the ruling party, and the country.

    The president extolled the passionate and relentless efforts of the statesman in ensuring the entrenchment democracy in Nigeria, and sustenance of the rule of law.

    He prayed that the almighty God would grant “Chief Akande longer life, more strength and wisdom to continue serving the country he loves, and humanity’’.

    Akande was former governor of Osun between 1999 and 2003, and had meritoriously served as deputy governor of old Oyo State from 1979 to 1983.

     

     

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  • Just In: Tinubu, Akande, others in Ibadan for APC southwest stakeholders meeting

    Reports reaching TheNewsGuru.com states that stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the South West geo-political zone are currently meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

    Among those who beat the time to arrive early at the meeting billed to take place at 1pm include former interim National Chairman of the party and former governor of Osun state, Chief Bisi Akande; Minister for Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Muhammed and his Finance counterpart, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun.

    Others include the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Ogun state Chief Olusegun Osoba, former Governor of Osun state, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode who arrived about 12.50 pm.

    Also attending the meeting include Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye; Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

    The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu. Governor Ibikunle Amosun, and Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state have all arrived the venue of the meeting.

    The purpose of the meeting is yet to be revealed.