Femi Falana Urges Buhari To Take Medical Leave
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately proceed on medical leave.
The call follows the president’s absence from two consecutive Federal Executive Council, FEC meetings as well as Friday prayers last week.
A statement, jointly signed by Falana as well as Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Debo Adeniran, Dr. Chris Kwaja, Y. Z. Ya’u, Chom Bagu, Olanrewaju Suraju, Ezenwa Nwagwu, Anwal Musa Rafsanjani, David Ugolor, ‘Sina Odugbemi, Muhammed Attah and Adetokunbo Mumuni, said when the president returned from his medical vacation to the United Kingdom, he disclosed that he had never been that sick in his entire life.
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The statement read in part, “A few weeks ago, the Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai urged Nigerians to give President Buhari time to recover from his sickness.
“The plea was made after the Governor had visited and presumably assessed the state of the President at the presidential villa in Abuja.
“Due to the apparent deterioration in the president’s condition, he has neither been seen in public in the last one week nor attended the last two meetings of the Federal Executive Council.
“His absence at the last Jumat service in the villa has fuelled further speculations and rumours on President Buhari’s medical condition.
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“As we join the Nigerian people of goodwill to pray for a speedy recovery of President Buhari, we are compelled to advise him to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay,” the statement said.
The president has not been seen in public for more than a week and the hashtag #WhereIsBuhari has been trending on Twitter.
