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President Muhammadu Buhari, please go on medical leave – say Nigerians

The health status of President Buhari has been subject of major political discourse and street parliaments in Nigeria. All feared the repeat of Yar Adu'a's episode.

President Muhammadu Buhari

This move was taken by these concern citizens to prevent the repeat of late President Umaru Musa Yar Adua’s situation and power play that accompanied it.

This group of Nigerians that raised concerns about the President’s health cut across some of the Nigeria's most influential civil society figures, including lawyer Femi Falana, political analyst Jibrin Ibrahim, and Transparency International Nigeria head Anwal Musa Rafsanjani.

The group was code named, the Group of 13 Nigerians.

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The group noted that the President’s would have "deteriorated" to have warranted him not attending the last two cabinet meetings of his government as well as the weekly Friday Muslim prayers. These two incidents "have fuelled further speculation and rumours" about his medical condition, the group said in a statement.

The group advised the President“to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay”.

Also on this issue, Chief Bisi Aknade, A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), warned that some people in the corridor of power are currently feasting on the health condition of President Buhari for personal gains.

Chief Akande in a statement on Monday, May 1, 2017 said the president’s ailing health is taking a toll on the country, and expressed fear that it may throw the country into anarchy if not proper handled.

“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.”

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“The greatest danger, however, is for political interests at the corridor of power attempting to feast on the health of Mr. President in a dangerous manner that may aggravate the problems between the executive and the National Assembly without realising if, in the end, it could drag the entire country into avoidable doom.

“Let me warn today that those who wish to harvest political gains out of the health of the president are mistaken. This is not Nigeria of 1993.

“We are in a new national and global era of constitutionalism and order. We hope Nigerians have enough patience to learn from history.

“My greatest fear, however, is that the country should not be allowed to slide into anarchy and disorder of a ‘monumental proportion’.”

He urged all Nigerians to pray for the president’s recovery, saying it is necessary to prevent Nigeria from being thrown into confusion.

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