The Presidency has ruled out the possibility of President Muhammadu Buhari resigning his position over his ill health as being suggested in some quarters.
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, who fielded questions from journalists, at the launch of Olusegun Adeniyi’s book, “Against the run of play” in Lagos on Friday, said the people who called for the President to quit over his sickness were entitled to their opinions.
He argued that their opinions were not as important as the views of the 15 million people who voted for the President in the 2015 election.
“Well, it is an opinion, but don’t forget that about 15 million people elected the president so if one or two persons expressed their opinion, will their opinions override that of 15 million people who voted for him? So those who are expressing their opinions have rights to their opinions.
“Yesterday there was still a press statement saying there is no need for apprehension. God spared the president. In the first place, he said he had never been as sick as he was before, the same God that spared him will also ensure that he returns to full health. Nigerians prayed, God answered.
Nigerians are still praying, God will still answer. That is all we believe,” he said.
The President returned from medical break in the United Kingdom on March 10, where he spent 49 days.
He has been absent from two consecutive meetings of the Federal Executive Council.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, therefore informed journalists that he would work from home on Wednesday.
It was learnt that the President needed some rest and had “asked that all the files on his table be brought to him at his official residence in the Presidential Villa.”
President Buhari did not also attend Friday’s Juma’at prayers at the State House Mosque, where he had made his last two public appearances.
