Declare office of president vacant, Adegboruwa urges Senate

A Lagos based lawyer, EbunOlu Adegboruwa, yesterday urged the Senate to declare the office of President Muhammadu Buhari vacant.

Adegboruwa also asked the Senate to constitute a medical panel of experts to examine the health status of the president in order to determine if he can still continue to function in office.

The lawyer, in a statement to newsmen, said Vice President should be sworn in as Acting President ‘in the meantime’.

“Even though the president is human, the constitution anticipates a fit and proper chief executive, to be in charge of and run the affairs of Nigeria, which General Buhari cannot presently fulfil.”

He faulted the position of some activists who called on the president to go on medical vacation, saying “Where on earth did the activists meet with the president to know that he is sick and deserves a medical vacation? Have any of them been privy to know his health status? Just yesterday, Nigerians were being insulted by the aides of the President that he is so fit and healthy that he will contest and win the 2019 election.”

He said the country does not need to wait for the Yar’adua scenario before “we take steps to save the President from himself and his handlers. We are all human after all, and no one can play God or rejoice over another man on account of his ill health.”