Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will declare his health status at the appropriate time.
Mr. Buhari is currently in the United Kingdom attending to his health.
He has however come under tremendous pressure from well-meaning Nigerians to declare his health status.
Asked about the President’s health status on Monday, Osinbajo told State House correspondents that he was not in a position to answer.
According to him, “I think that the health status of Mr President is a fact or issue that only Mr President himself will be able to discuss at the appropriate time.
“Again, he is running tests and before you determine your health status you must be able to say ‘this is my health status’.
“If I’m running tests; doing some routine and some that my doctors have asked me to do, then surely I must await the outcome of that before I talk about any kind of status.”
The Vice President who spoke after a closed doors meeting with APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun at the Presidential Villa, said he had a lengthy telephone conversation with President Buhari earlier in the day.
“Let me say that the President is hale and hearty. I spoke to him just this afternoon and we had a very long conversation.
“He was interested in knowing about the budget process and how far we had gone. As you know, we had a meeting today with the private sector on the economic recovery plan.
“Of course I informed him about some of what we are seeing – the protests, marches and all of that, some of the feedback and what people are saying about the economy.
“He is in good shape, he was very chatty and we had a good conversation this afternoon,” he said.
Osinbajo also spoke about rumours that he was under press to resign, ge responded this way:
“I’m absolutely under no pressure to resign. In any event, I was voted for by the people of this nation – myself and Mr President, and the people of this nation have not asked us to resign.
“So I have absolutely no pressure whatsoever and the truth is that there have been absolutely no pressure whatsoever from any source asking me to resign.”
