@n6oflife6 The police aren't that incompetent. You drive with easy to remember license plate numbers and you have three other trained personnel as witnesses to the incident
Egbon Bayo stop capping and respect the Nigerian people who pay your bills !
The Presidency announced on August 30 that President Bola Tinubu was leaving Nigeria for a three-week annual vacation in Europe. London was named as his first stop, and Nigerians were told he would return home after the working vacation.
That three-week period expired. On September 21, the Presidency announced that the President had extended his stay by “a few days” and would return “at the weekend.” The weekend came and went. The promise then changed to “this week.”
We need explanations not insults !!!
When a government announces one timeline, extends it, misses its own deadline and then offers another vague promise, Nigerians have every right to ask what changed. They have every right to ask who made the decision and who is accountable for it.
Instead of answering those basic questions, you have characteristically reached for ridicule.
“the President does not need to be physically present in Abuja to do his job in the digital age”
We’ve heard this argument before and it didn’t end well…
It is a distraction.
Nigerians did not ask whether a President can send instructions from abroad. They asked why the return dates keep changing, when the President will actually return, and what constitutional arrangement governs an absence that has now gone beyond the period originally announced.
Section 145 of the Constitution provides that when the President is proceeding on vacation or is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, he is to transmit a written declaration to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Was that declaration transmitted?
If it was, the Presidency should say so plainly.
If it was not, the Presidency should explain the legal basis for the arrangement you are defending.
The parallels with the Yar’Adua era are therefore impossible to ignore and the issue is not that the two situations are identical.
The issue is the familiar official script: describe the absence as routine, offer categorical reassurance, insist that the President can continue governing from abroad and dismiss those asking for clear institutional answers.
During the Yar’Adua crisis, Nigerians were told that the President could continue to govern from outside the country. Today, they are told that the President is on a “working vacation,” is “hale and hearty” (Aondooaka the AGF actually used that exact phrase back then! ) and does not need to be physically present in Abuja in the digital age. The same reflex for unaccountability to the Nigerian people has not changed and it must.
In both cases, slogans and assurances are being used to fill the space where Nigerians deserve a firm timeline, a transparent constitutional arrangement and direct accountability. “L
“Hale and hearty” is not a return date. A list of meetings is not a constitutional answer. And an insult from a spokesperson is not a briefing. We are the ones paying his bills and should be kept abreast of what our employee is doing …if it feels like it’s beneath him then he should resign to private life and do as he pleases with his time and resources!
No one is arguing that the President has no right to take leave. The issue is whether the Presidency can give Nigerians a straight answer about the length of that leave, the reason for the extension and the authority under which government is being conducted.
The Presidency is not a private itinerary. It is a public office. If the President is working, tell Nigerians what decisions he has taken. If his stay has been extended, give the reason and a definite return date. If the constitutional notice was transmitted, confirm it.
What Nigerians do not need is to be scolded for asking questions that the government should have answered without being pushed.
Your job is to provide clarity, not to insult citizens who demand it. Accountability can’t be sent on vacation.
Where is he ?!
Lt. Col. SJ Dibal (rtd), Ph.D.
She did not start as an officer. She started as a recruit in Depot Zaria. 21 Regular Recruits Intake. Nigerian Army Medical Corps, January 1986. Rose to Warrant Officer. Then Executive Commission, Lieutenant, 2002.
In 2018 she became the first Executive Commission officer decorated Lieutenant Colonel. She was also the first commander of the Nigerian Army Women Corps.
In Maiduguri she worked out of 7 Division Hospital - morale, mental health, the unglamorous work beside the troops.
She gave Thirty-five years in service and Retired in 2021. The uniform left. The example did not.
Thank you ma for your service 🫡