TAKE MEDICAL LEAVE IMMEDIATELY! 13 SANs, OTHERS TELL BUHARI

Thirteen prominent civil rights activists led by Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana
(SAN), have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately proceed on
medical leave.

The call was contained in a statement issued on Monday and jointly signed by
the activists, Saharareporters report.



The activists noted that the President’s health appears to have deteriorated,
given that he has neither been seen in public in the last one week nor attended
the last two meetings of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

“His absence at the last Jumat service in the villa has fuelled further
speculations and rumours on President Buhari’s medical condition,” the
activists said.

They equally noted that government officials have been defending the
President’s conspicuous absence at the federal executive council and other
state functions.Specifically, said the activists, Specifically, said the activists, Mr. Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to thePresident on Media and Publicity, stated that “the president’s doctors haveadvised on his taking things slowly, as he fully recovers from the long period oftreatment in the United Kingdom some weeks ago”.

While the activists said they are praying for the President’s speedy recovery,
they advised him to heed the counsel of his doctors by taking a rest to attend
to his health without any further delay.

The activists took a dim view of the conduct of government officials, saying
instead of providing information on the actual state of the President’s health,
they have been assuring the public that there. is no need for apprehension.
They recalled that the President was recently in the United Kingdom on a
medical vacation, which lasted 59 days, during which many public officials said
he was “hale and hearty.”

“But upon his return to the country, President Buhari disclosed that he had
never been that sick in his entire life. Even though the President did not
disclose the nature of his ailment, he revealed that he went through blood
transfusion,” recalled the activists. They also noted that the President
disclosed that he might soon travel back for further treatment.

In a similar vein, Mr. Falana and the other activists recalled that a few weeks
ago, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, urged Nigerians to give
President Buhari time to recover from his sickness. The activists reckoned that
the governor made the plea after assessing his condition during a visit to the
President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Signatories to the statement also included Professor Jibrin Ibrahim, Debo
Adeniran, Dr. Chris Kwaja, Mr. Y. Z. Ya’u, Mr. Chom Bagu and Mr. Olanrewaju
Suraju. Others were Messrs. Ezenwa Nwagwu, Anwal Musa Rafsanjani, David
Ugolor, ‘Sina Odugbemi, Muhammed Attah and Adetokunbo Mumuni.

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