Agbakoba condemns controversy on president Buhari’s medical vacation letter

• Osinbajo says Buhari handed over to him before leaving Nigeria

Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN has expressed concern over what he called unnecessary controversy raised over the wordings of letter written to the National Assembly by President Mohhamadu Buhari empowering Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to act on his behave while away on medical treatment abroad.
Agbakoba’s press statement on Wednesday reads: “ I am concerned by the unnecessary controversy raised over the use of these words ‘While I am away, the Vice President will coordinate the activities of the Government’ in the medical vacation letter transmitted by the President to the National Assembly.
“I believe it is a distraction by politicians. The nomenclature used by the President to describe his Vice President does not matter. What matters to the average long suffering Nigerian is good governance. Will the Acting President create jobs; provides water, roads, electricity, food, etc. This is what is important”. He said
Meanwhile, Acting President Osinbajo has waded into the controversy spawned by the wording of President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the national assembly. Responding to a question on the issue on Twitter, Osinbajo said the president did hand over power to him.
The president embarked on a medical trip to the UK on Sunday, and he transmitted a letter to the national assembly informing it of his absence. In the letter read on the floor of the senate on Tuesday, Buhari said the vice-president would “coordinate the activities of the government” in his absence. This was different from a letter the president sent to the national assembly when he embarked on a similar trip to the UK in January. Buhari and Osinbajo met before the President jetted out to London State House/Bayo Omoboriowo
At the time, he wrote that the vice-president would “perform the duties of my office” while he was away. The wording of the president’s recent letter has generated much debate, with critics accusing Buhari of deliberately undermining his deputy. Tweeting via @benamaigwo, one Bernard Amaiguo had asked: “Mr. vice president, why did Mr President refuse to hand over the affairs of the country to you?” In his response, Osinbajo said the president did transfer power to him.