As the continued inability of the president to address Nigerians at a time COVID-19 is ravaging the world continue to generate reactions from Nigerians, former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is also asking why the president can’t talk to Nigerians.
In a post he made via his social media account, the PDP chieftain asked the president to “conduct a LIVE television broadcast to assure the Nigerian people that he is well and that he has not fled our shores to seek medical treatment elsewhere.”
He maintained that the “rumours are heartbreaking” and asked the President to step aside if his health condition won’t allow him to continue as the country doesn’t “need a power-mad, tyrannical, vain and irresponsible megalomaniac and antedeluvian relic who has lost touch with reality, who no longer knows who, what or where he is and who is suffering from senility, delusions of grandeur, an identity crisis and the misplaced notion that he is not accountable to God and to the people.”
His exact words;
“I urge President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct a LIVE television broadcast to assure the Nigerian people that he is well and that he has not fled our shores to seek medical treatment elsewhere.
“The rumours are heartbreaking and disheartening. We deserve to be reassured that we have not been abandoned midstream and that the President has not been afflicted by Covid 19 or any other debilitating and life-threatening illness.
“We also need to be assured that he is indeed Muhammadu Buhari and not Jubril Al Sudani. To say that it is his style to ignore his people and treat them with contempt at a time of national crisis is disrespectful, disingenuous and downright insulting. The Nigerian people deserve a far better quality of leadership than that.
“If he is too sick to continue as President he should resign and let someone else take over the reigns of power but if he is well enough to continue he should get off his high horse, purge himself of his contempt for our people, come clean and behave like a responsible modern-day leader and not a feudal Arab Sheik or primitive tribal warlord.
“The Nigerian people and indeed the entire world are facing an existential threat and the greatest challenge in their entire history and this is not the time to play games or act as if all is well and that our house is not on fire.
“We need a leader that can inspire, encourage and reassure us and that is strong, healthy, focused, purposeful, decisive, sensitive, compassionate, alive to his responsibilities and forward-thinking.
“We do not need a power-mad, tyrannical, vain and irresponsible megalomaniac and antedeluvian relic who has lost touch with reality, who no longer knows who, what or where he is and who is suffering from senility, delusions of grandeur, an identity crisis and the misplaced notion that he is not accountable to God and to the people.”
