Osinbajo is Nigeria’s Acting President, Buhari has committed no crime - Senator Gbolahan

- Senator Gbolahan Dada has asked Nigerians to tone down on
Buhari's latest letter to the Senate
- President Buhari had in his letter said the his vice will be national
coordinator while he goes away on medical vacation
- Gbolahan says the clause does not in any way say that Osinbajo is
not Acting President
Prince Gbolahan Dada, representing Ogun West, has insisted that the
president did the right thing by transmitting power through a letter to the
Senate, insisting that Yemi Osinbajo is the Acting President, according to
the constitution.
Senator Gbolahan in an interview with Daily Post, said going by section
145 of the 1999 constitution as amended, Vice president, Osinbajo is the
acting president of Nigeria in the absence of the president.
According to him, ''The president has done what he is supposed to do.
Whenever a president is leaving the country to attend any function, what
he should do is to transmit letter to the senate, the law is very clear on
section 145 of the 1999 constitution which stipulates that where the
president is absent, the vice president acts, and that's what he has done.
He must transmit a letter to the senate indicating his intention to travel.''
He insisted the vice president should be addressed as the Acting President.
He said: "As far as the constitution is concerned, he should be addressed
as the acting president, he must be referred to as the acting president
because that's what the law says.
My take is what the law says, because it's stipulated there that whenever
the president is out of town and he transmits letter to the senate of his
intention to travel, the vice president is automatically in acting capacity,
that's the provision of the law and that's what is in the constitution."
When asked whether the Executive and the Legislative arms are in a sour
relationship, he said: "In a democracy like ours, face-off between the
presidency and the senate is not abnormal.
They may not be on the same sides at certain times, it's nothing
permanent, you can see that in England and other countries; everybody
has to stay within his own domain and work.
I don't see anything serious, the face-off is about positions, listen to me
and I listen to you; at the end of the day, we come out with a
conclusion,'' the Senator said.
In an earlier report by blissgist.blogspot.com, Princess Hadiza
Ibrahim noted that
some members of a certain cabal are doing everything to kick Vice
President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo out of office ahead of 2019 general
elections.
She made the assertion while appealing to Osinbajo, now Acting
President, not to resign under any circumstance.
Hadiza noted that if Osinbajo resigns, he would be betraying the
confidence Nigerians reposed in his joint mandate with President
Muhammdu Buhari .
She told Daily Sun that "In fairness, I also believe in Osinbajo. For the
little time that Buhari was away on medical vacation recently, Osinbajo
tried his best for this country. The value of naira appreciated. I am sure
with time again, the value of naira will be on a higher side and dollar will
be on a lower side."