impeachable offence for President
Muhammadu Buhari to have taken a
call from Donald Trump
- The group says having temporarily
relinquished power, acting president,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, is
constitutionally mandated to take such
calls
Dream Imo, a civil society group in
the south-eastern part of Nigeria has
declared that the United States
President Donald Trump could not
have called Muhammadu Buhari as is
being reported.
This is even with reports that the call
between the two presidents was
confirmed by Trump and foreign
media outfits.
In a statement by its chief convener,
Emmanuel Nzenwa, the group said it
did not believe that Buhari, who is on
medical leave abroad could be called
by Trump especially since he is in a
foreign land.
He also noted that acting President
Yemi Osinbajo should have been in a
better position to take the call since it
was not personal between the two
presidents.
He noted that even the CNN which
reported the development quoted
Femi Adesina, the spokesperson to
Buhari.
Daily Post quoted the statement as
saying: “It is a huge insult to associate the
president of America with such a big
diplomatic blunder. How can Donald
Trump call a man who is temporary out of
service for medical attention and be
discussing diplomatic issues with him?
“The power of Mr President has been
vested in the vice president, Prof Yemi
Osinbajo the day the president transmitted
a letter to the national assembly
empowering him!
“The power to act is no more on Mr
President until he transmits another letter
to the same national assembly for retrieval
of power and resumption of duty.
“Whenever former President Barack
Obama of the United States of America was
on vacation, he ceased from performing the
functions of his office. Any calls on
diplomatic issues which never went to him
any way, would be redirected to the seat of
power, the white house for the then vice
president Joe Biden who was acting on his
behalf!
“At that moment in time, the power of the
president was on Joe Biden and not on
Obama! Obama could only retrieve his
power from Joe Biden through a letter to
their national assembly. Without that
letter, he didn’t have the power to perform!
“So it would be an absurdity of the century
for Trump to call President Buhari who is
on leave now. According to the rule of
engagement for international diplomacy,
Trump would rather call the vice president
who is now acting on behalf of the
president.
“Seat of power calls seat of power! It is
assumed that the one on the seat of power
for now is the acting president, Prof Yemi
Osinbajo.
“The handlers of our president are making
Trump look stupid by saying he called a
president on a medical vacation.
Don’t they understand what vacation
(leave) means?
“In fact it would amount to an impeachable
offence for any president on vacation to act
without such letter of resumption first! We
cannot have two persons performing the
same function of the president at the same
time!”
The group lamented that Buhari failed
to address the people of the Nigeria
regarding his death rumour and
refused to meet with Nigerians in the
United Kingdom
The group added: “What then is the
rationale behind such interaction with the
US president? Wouldn’t it have been better
for him to address concerned Nigerians
first?
“No wonder the world leading media
agency, Cable News Network (CNN) chose
to quote Mr Femi Adesina instead of the
White House.
“This reminds me of this question: Which
media agency monitored that call? Don’t
forget that Trump’s call to Vladimir Putin
of Russia, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
and others were monitored by CNN and
others.
“Hence they reported them authoritatively
without quoting any person. When he had a
conversation with Taiwanese president,
Tsai Ing-wen, it was also monitored by
CNN and others. That was why we all felt
the heat it generated when China kicked!
“It is high time certain propagandists
spared us falsehoods because we are no
ignoramuses!”
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