As uncertainty continues to pervade the air over the state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari, the factional leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has asked the President to resign and hand over power to Vice president Yemi Osinbajo to enable him recuperate properly.
Markafi said this in an interview with newsmen, while answering question on Buhari’s absence at the Federal Executive Council Meeting (FEC) which has become a re-ocurrence in the last three weeks, demanding him to transfer power to his Vice who he said, is more fit to work pending his full recovery.
His words: “It cannot be okay and it can never be okay. My take is that if the President is not fully fit to stay in office, it is better that he tell Nigerians, so that the Vice President will continue to be Acting President, exercising the powers of acting president.
“Then you run away from this kind of situation when we allow time for the President to fully recover and assume his mantle of leadership. Me as a PDP person and a human being, I will never wish any human being any ill-fated occurrence, even if I disagree with you politically.
“So, it does not matter that it is APC that is the person that is sick. My prayer is that he will be fit to serve his term.
“As a politician, I equally want him to finish his term. So when some people begin to insinuate things, of what interest would it be to PDP should the President be unable to finish his term.
“We don’t wish him ill will, we want him to be well, we want him to be fit enough to be on seat when in 2019 we go for election and defeat the APC.
Makarfi noted that despite being an opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the PDP want the President to get-on well with his health, but Nigerians must avert any political instability and confusion that could arise, if the situation is not properly managed in the coming days.
“For a number of reasons, the PDP wishes the President well, for stability of this country, political stability and the fact that we want to defeat a sitting President.
“We don’t want any confusion politically in this country. It is not good for anybody and as a human being; I never wish anybody ill will irrespective of political differences.”
