The Spokesperson of Yoruba
socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has insisted that the
Office of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has been stripped of many of its
duties.
Odumakin maintained that there
has been “serial assaults” on Osinbajo’s office.
He was reacting to President
Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to sign a new bill on offshore oil fields in
London.
Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba
Kyari had traveled to London on Monday with the bill for the President’s
assent.
The development had sparked
controversy and speculations that Osinbajo has been sidelined.
However, the Afenifere’s
spokesperson while featuring on Channels Television’s Programme, Politics Today
said: “There have been serial assaults on that office for a long time now.
“Since after Osinbajo sacked
Daura, there has never been any data transmission to the National Assembly
whenever the president is travelling out of the country.
“Outside that, we have seen that
most of the functions given to his office have been stripped.
“Many of them have been taken to
the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
“You can say that most of those
functions are at the discretion of the president but the question of the
President’s transmission of power to the Vice President when he is leaving the
country, is a constitutional matter.
“The constitution says that when
the President is going out of the country, he shall write to the National
Assembly, transmit to the Vice and when he comes back, he will send another
letter… that has not been done in this case.
“What we have now seen is the
Chief of Staff, taking bills to London for the President to sign”.
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