Amidst calls for Buhari to step aside, minister shares president’s campaign caps at FEC

As reactions continue to trail former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘go home and not seek re-election letter’ to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, on Wednesday flooded the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting with Buhari’s campaign caps.

Obasanjo had in an open lengthy message to Buhari on Tuesday, advised the president not to seek re-election but to go home and rest.

However, shortly before the start of the weekly FEC meeting on Wednesday, presided over by President Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Shittu was seen carrying a bag full of Buhari’s second term campaign caps.

The minister later handed over the caps bagged inside a big sack referred to as “Ghana-must-go” bag to the council’s secretariat staff, whose duties it is to distribute council documents and other items to members.

It was therefore believed that staff members were to distribute the caps to ministers and other council members in attendance.

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This was even as the Communication Minister, who was on a suit, had a sample of the cap on his head.

The cap designed with the logo of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had as inscription, “Continuity’19: Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo”.

The development is coming as Shittu had earlier last Saturday launched the South West Zonal Office of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation in Ibadan, Oyo State.

 

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