According to Symbol NewsAlert, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called their combined absence concerning as President Muhammadu Buhari leaves Abuja for New York, United States, for ten days to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77), while Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom.
HURIWA claims that this illustrates a country operating automatically since 2015.
HURIWA added that the decision by the President and Vice President to leave the nation’s borders simultaneously in order to waste money at a time of hyperinflation and unsettling levels of insecurity demonstrates that the current administration does not care about the welfare of the people, instead the pair are only interested in gratifying their insatiable appetites for travel and epicurean tendencies.
According to a statement from the presidency, among many other things, Buhari will speak on the second day of the General Debates on September 21 while Osinbajo will attend the funeral service at Westminster Abbey with other international leaders. just before the service.
HURIWA lambasted President Buhari for leaving the country at roughly the same time as his deputy in order to attend ceremonial events that won’t help Nigeria’s economic or security problems in any meaningful way.
The organization said that a circumstance like this, when both leaders will step aside from their responsibilities for a few days to attend ceremonial events, was not anticipated by the Nigerian constitution.
The rights organization stressed that it was required by the Constitution for either the President or his Vice to be physically present in Nigeria.
HURIWA argued that if the President truly loved his country more than he loved to travel, he would have asked the Vice President to remain in Nigeria while he attended the ceremonial funeral for the late Queen of England before traveling to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Except for the president of the United States, who is permitted to go in his presidential SUV, all other world leaders are required to take buses, according to HURIWA. We are starting to think that President Muhammadu Buhari is afraid to travel to the Queen’s burial with the other invitees.
There is no reason for the President and his Vice to leave Nigeria simultaneously unless it is because they haven’t been in the right mindset to lead effectively. Instead, they have been running Nigeria on autopilot for the past few years, which is why armed non-state actors are causing unprecedented unrest and bloody insecurity across the nation and inflation has spiraled out of control at over 20 percent.