Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo has disclosed why he never declared former Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar as acting President when he was in power.
Obasanjo explained that he didn’t
declare Abubakar acting president because he didn’t have to travel out of the
country for 104 days like President Muhammadu Buhari did when he went to London
for a medical vacation.
Delivering a paper at the Lagos
Island Club Quarterly Business Lecture, on Wednesday, the former President said
insinuations that he stifled Abubakar while in government was erroneous.
He stated that there was no
Nigerian Chief Executive that has devolved powers to his deputy as much as he
did to Atiku during their tenure.
According to Obasanjo: “Atiku had
occasions to preside on a few times that I was out of the country on duty. On
those occasions he was in charge of the Federal Executive Council meetings.
And, no Nigerian Chief Executive has devolved to his deputy as much as I did to
Atiku.
“I did not need to designate him
as acting president because the constitution is clear that once the President
is not available, the Vice President automatically has resumed powers and can
only consult when is considered necessary.
“But since I was not absent from
home for 104 days at a time, people may not know that Atiku actually stood in
for me whenever I was not around.”
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