{"id":2877,"date":"2017-06-06T01:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2017-06-06T01:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:34:31","slug":"hype-about-constitutional-crisis-unnecessary-says-garba-shehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"HYPE ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS UNNECESSARY, SAYS GARBA SHEHU \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE
\nBy ATTAH ESA<\/strong>,\u00a0Deputy Director (Information),\u00a0State House, Abuja.
\nThe Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, has dismissed an article by a Nigerian historian, Max Siollun, entitled “The Gentleman’s Agreement that Could Break Apart Nigeria,” published in the United States-based Foreign Policy magazine. The piece speculates that Nigeria faces imminent political and constitutional crisis on account of President Buhari\u2019s absence to attend to his health in London.
\nReacting to what he called “needlessly sensational and exaggerated speculations by conspiracy theorists”, the Presidential aide explained that it is misleading to compare President Buhari\u2019s case to that of the late President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua, adding that the circumstances are completely different.
\nAccording to Shehu, unlike President Yar\u2019Adua, President Buhari has duly complied with the constitutional requirements by formally notifying the National Assembly of his intention to go for medical treatment and handing over to Professor Yemi Osinbajo as Acting President.
\nMalam Shehu added that, “While Yar\u2019Adua was too severely ill to transmit a letter formally to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Buhari is not in such medical state, and therefore, the country is not currently facing any complications on account of his absence.”
\nThe media aide noted that under President Yar\u2019Adua, there was uncertainty about the role of the Vice President because the late President was not in a position to formally transfer power to his deputy, which necessitated the resort to the doctrine of necessity to enable Dr. Goodluck Jonathan act in his absence.
\nMalam Shehu explained that, currently, none of these circumstances prevail in Nigeria on account of President Buhari\u2019s absence for medical treatment.
\nAccording to him, having transferred power formally to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, President Muhammadu Buhari did not leave Nigeria with any power vacuum, adding, therefore, that any suggestions of uncertainty or constitutional crisis are imaginary and exaggerated.
\nHe explained that with the Acting President Professor Osinbajo already running the affairs of the country in the absence of President Buhari, people should stop creating artificial fears of crisis or uncertainty, noting that governance has not ground to a halt because President Buhari has duly complied with the constitution.
\nMalam Shehu appealed to conspiracy theorists not to pollute the polity by needlessly seeking to create an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and suspicions in the country.
\nThe Media aide said that the President publicly admitted he was sick and taking treatment and that he never pretended about his health condition with that open admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE By ATTAH ESA,\u00a0Deputy Director (Information),\u00a0State House, Abuja. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, has dismissed an article by a Nigerian historian, Max Siollun, entitled “The Gentleman’s Agreement that Could Break Apart Nigeria,” published in the United States-based Foreign Policy magazine. The piece speculates that Nigeria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}