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Transfer of power to Osinbajo not warranted - Garba Shehu
 
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Wed, 31 Mar 2021   ||   Nigeria,
 

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said President Muhammadu Buhari has done nothing wrong by not transferring power to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo before his (Buhari’s) medical trip.

He added that President Buhari would only be away for few days, so it is unnecessary to hand over to his Vice.

The President’s aide said this on Tuesday on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today.

Garba Shehu further stated that “Buhari will continue from wherever he is.

“The requirement of the law is that if the President is going to be absent in the country for 21 days and more, then that transmission is warranted.

“In this particular instance, it is not warranted.”

He added that the President is not sick in any way but that he only travelled for medical check-up.

“It is a medical trip and there is absolutely no urgency, no emergency; the President is not in any sick condition.

“It is a routine medical check-up; the President has undertaken this with a set of doctors that he has retained over many years,” he said.

Shehu also said sponsors of terrorists and their accomplices, including bureau de change operators, would soon be named.

 

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