PDP To Buhari: You Were Not Elected To Work ‘Behind The Curtains’

The party’s criticism follows a statement made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in reaction to Buhari’s absence from Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting.

The Whistler recalls that President Buhari has been absent from the FEC meetings for three times in a row.

Mohammed, had said that the president would now work from home following his absence at the meeting as he needed some rest., asking that all the files on his table be brought to him at his official residence at the presidential villa, Abuja for treatment.

“He (the President) wanted to rest today and he asked the VP to preside over today’s meeting.

“In addition, he also asked that all his files be taken home to him and he will be working from home today,’’ the minister said.

But the opposition party called on the presidency to reveal the health status of the president following his absence at the meeting.

The spokesman for PDP’s National Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye in a statement said it was wrong for Mohammed to continuously dish out lies as regards the health status of Buhari.

He said: “We have passed a stage whereby you dish out lies to Nigerians on a daily basis about the health status of the President.

“We had such and similar experience during the days of the late former President Umaru Yar’Adua, when his health status was being manipulated by a cabal within the Presidency. We should be allowed to forget that era.

“President Buhari is human like any other person and is liable to fall sick as well.

“But he was elected to a public office and he is occupying a public office. He cannot therefore claim to be working behind the curtains.

“He is not allowed to work secretly because he was not elected to work secretly. FEC is statutory and he must preside over it.”