Buhari Prepared For The Worst During Medical Vacation—Osinbajo

               

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday revealed that when President
Muhammadu Buhari had health issues and had to travel to London for medical care
the president prepared himself for the worst.

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According to Osinbajo, Buhari instructed him to carry on with the administration
of the country unhindered, a comment he (Osinbajo) took for a joke.

The vice president also revealed that once or twice, while Buhari was recuperating
in London, he sought his approval or clarification on state matters but Buhari
simply told him to "just carry on with your good works,” and then asked, “What if
I drop dead?"

Osinbajo made these revelations at the public presentation of the book, ‘Making
Steady, Sustainable Progress’, authored by the president's media team, Femi
Adesina, Garba Shehu, and Laolu Akande.

Osinbajo noted that the book, which captured the modest achievements of the
Buhari administration, was silent on the humorous nature of the president and his
zero-tolerance for wastefulness of national resources.

Tinubu Advises Him Not To Ignore Clamour For True Federalism
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
who was the keynote speaker at the presentation, advised President Muhammadu
Buhari not to jettison the clamour for true federalism.

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He insisted that power balance between states and the Federal Government
remained a reliable means of achieving the collective aim as a nation.


President Buhari had written off the loud clamour for true federalism, insisting that
the opposition and other people with questionable intentions were backing the call
for true federalism for divisive purposes.

“We also must move toward true federalism by the balance of power and
responsibility between the Federal Government and the states.
“In so doing, we’ll attain the correct balance between our collective purpose, on
one hand, and our separate grassroots realities, on the other,” Tinubu stated.

Tinubu said although President Buhari’s critics score him low on achievements,
the administration had actually made substantial impact in the last two years.
He advised Buhari to reduce interest rates to effectively reflate the economy,
including making consumer credit readily available to entrepreneurs.

According to the former governor of Lagos State, Boko Haram would have
consumed Nigeria in its entirety if Buhari had not come in as president when he
did.
He said during the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan,
corruption had a field day such that monies that could have been spent on national
development grew feet and ran away as fast as was possible.

He, however, admitted that Buhari had only scratched the surface of corruption as
yet.
The battle against graft was far from being won, the party leader said.
“Boko Haram has not been completely defeated, but there is no question that it has
been decimated and made shorter and weaker.
“They shall never constitute the threat they once were.

“This is no accident. It is the result of the policies and commitment of President
Buhari, his government, and the men and women of our armed forces who place
their lives on the line in silent heroism to protect this nation and its people.

“Had the previous government remained in place, Boko Haram would have surely
eaten more territory and devoured more people.
“This nation might have indeed been divided and cut asunder, not by choice but by
the knife of terrorism.

“The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity
that limited its giving only to themselves.
“So much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could.

“That which could have been spent on national development was squandered in
ways that would cause the devil to blush.
“One minister and her rogues’ gallery picked the pocket of this nation for billions
of dollars.

“While poor at governance, these people could give a master thief lessons in the
sleight of hand.
“In governance, they earned a red card, but in corruption, they won the gold medal.

“It was not that our institutions had become infected by corruption. Corruption had
become institutionalised.
“President Buhari has set an axe to the root of this dangerous tree.
“I would be lying if I said the war against large-scale corruption has been won.
“It has not. It will take time and countless swings of the axe to fall such a deeply-
rooted tree.

“But try we must. This is what the president is doing.
"Gone are the times when a minister can pilfer billions of dollars as easily as
plucking a piece of candy from the table.
"We have much to do to combat this disease.

“Not only must we track down the takers, in the long term, we must review the
salaries of public servants and create universal credits for our people to reduce
temptation.

“We must also take greater care by placing people of character, competence, and
goodness into key positions.
“When they fail, they must be removed without remorse or favour.”