Buhari<\/a> was away in London on a sick leave.<\/p>\nIn an interview with the Sun, Mohammed said Osinbajo made some mistakes in the discharge of his functions as the Acting President, adding that on the whole Osinbajo was tribalistic and focused more on his people.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t run a country by assuming that you are entitled to certain powers, certain privileges. You are not! We have a written constitution, which provides enormous powers to only one person \u2013 the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president has the right to delegate some of these powers to anybody, including the vice president. But in terms of a written authority to exercise certain functions and powers, the vice president in my reading of the Constitution has basically only two powers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne, the vice president is the Chairman of the National Economic Council and that is an occasional meeting \u2013 not more than once in a quarter \u2013 to discuss general economic policies because we are running a federation.<\/p>\n
\u201cApart from that, the vice president also is the Chairman of the National Boundaries Commission. Again that harkens back to the issue of running a federation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are running a federation, there must be somebody that advises the president or the vice president on the issue of legal borders, even for the purposes of taxation.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond these, every single responsibility, which is being exercised by the vice president was at the instance or was the responsibility delegated to him by the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president had challenges, and even before he became the president he was not in the best of health, but people did not pay much attention.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so when he became very seriously sick and the Federal Government mismanaged, not the sickness, but the flow of information; they were not at the same level with the rest of the country, they were not telling us the truth, until the man had to stay for 37 days and later again for over 100 days in-between hospitals and the official residence of the High Commissioner in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether he wanted to hand over some or all of the responsibilities, there was just no way we could have a country without a president or somebody exercising the powers of the president. But that doesn\u2019t mean that these powers are or belonged to the vice president as a birthright.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo! I believe he (Osinbajo) made some mistakes (in the discharge of this function), but I also believe that on the whole his body language and his verbal expressions did not lead us into a crisis. He didn\u2019t abuse those powers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI find that most unfortunate because if a man says go and do this on his behalf, he has the right to withdraw and say I have reassigned it to myself or to somebody else as the law provides. I find the whole attitude from these people rather disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Second Republic lawmaker, Dr Junaid Mohammed, has backed President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s decision to reassign the powers he willingly granted Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. According to him, Prof Osinbajo, like most Nigerians, is tribalistic and employed members of his church and tribesmen during the period President Buhari was away in London on a sick leave. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,753,849],"class_list":["post-16977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-junaid-mohammed","tag-osinbajo"],"yoast_head":"\n
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