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Don’t waste your time, your demands unknown to law, Adesina tells Charly Boy, others

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Reacting to the planned protest by a coalition of civil society groups led by entertainer, Charly Boy, and other personalities like Nollywood star, Jim Iyke, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said their demand that President Muhammadu Buhari return to Nigeria from his medical vacation forthwith or tender his resignation, had no place in Nigerian law.

The group had in a release on Saturday announced their planned protest and sustained sit-in in Abuja beginning Monday, to call for the president’s immediate return or resignation.

Read also: Charly Boy, Jim Iyke to lead protest demanding Buhari’s return or resignation

But speaking on Sunday when he appeared on Politics Today, a programme on Channels TV, Adesina said the group’s demands would not be honoured by the president, as he had done what was required of him by the constitution, and would only return after his doctors certified him fit.

Adesina said, “..the president would always do what is legal and constitutional. What they are asking for is not known to our laws.

“The president will stand by our laws at all times. He will uphold the laws, he will protect them.”

Adesina added that he could not state the exact time when the president would be returning to the country but said it is in the public domain that Buhari was recuperating very fast.

Monday will make it the 92nd day since the president had been away from the country, having returned to London on follow-up medical trip.

 

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  1. Oise Oikelomen

    August 7, 2017 at 6:15 am

    Well, I think he is right though. But then again, the law does not prevent any person or group of persons from wasting their own time. So let them waste their time, it’s not your time.

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