The former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, who together with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was among the first visitors to President Muhammadu Buhari during his medical vacation in the UK, has raised the alarm over the Presidents health and its implication for the polity.
While appealing to his compatriots for sustained prayers for the recovery of Buhari, he appealed to those making political capital from his ill-health to stop it. In a statement issued Monday, the former APC Chairman however sounded gloomy and foreboding.
He said: “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 destabilizing the gains of democracy since 1999.”
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