The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari did
not write to the National Assembly, to inform them of his trip to the United
Kingdom.
Appearing
on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday, the PDP’s Deputy National
Chairman, Yemi Akinwunmi, said the President ought to have notified the
lawmakers, indicating his mission abroad and transferring power to Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo.
“I
know by the standard convention all over the world, it is conventional that
when the President is travelling out of a domain, whether privately or publicly
after about six or seven days, he has to have a course to the National Assembly
to disclose his mission and then transfer power to the Vice President.
“These
guys are talking as if Nigeria is a private enterprise, it is not. The
President derives his power from the citizens. And he is responsible not to the
presidency but to Nigerians.
“The
money he is going to spend in the course of the journey is derived from the
federation account,” Akinwunmi said.
Buhari
is expected to spend 10 days in the UK and return on May 5.
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