Arewa group decries politicising Buhari’s health

Agroup, Northern Patriotic Assembly (NPA) has cautioned against politicising the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The group, in a statement issued in Kaduna, signed by its president, Idakwo Jibrin and secretary general, Alhaji Adamu Wakil, decried what it described as “the exploitation of President Buhari’s health issue by some political leaders in the country.”

Specifically, the group cited remarks relating to the president’s health credited to Chief Bisi Akande and Femi Falana, which they said were “part of a larger plot to plunge the country into crisis.”

It said what was a personal challenge to the President had been politicised beyond comprehension by politicians “who hide behind the pretext of agitating for what is in the country’s best interest.”

According to them, “Even more unnerving is a situation whereby people we once held in high esteem as elders, leaders and professionals, decided to descend into the mud, using President Buhari’s health as their new object of obsession.

“We want Nigerians to specifically call these people to order; they cannot be allowed to run riot with their own missions to the detriment of the rest of us.

“The founding Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, who spoke from two opposing directions, urged caution about the way President Buhari’s health is discussed, (but) yet went on to describe it as a challenge to Nigeria.

“Akande’s role is, however that of ‘the Voice of Jacob and the Hands of Esau’ since it is glaring he spoke for the self-appointed Yoruba leader, whose protégé is the next in line to benefit if President Buhari can be shoved aside on health grounds,” the statement said.