President Muhammadu Buhari explained yesterday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has the capacity to resolve all issues surrounding the party’s national convention scheduled for March 26, 2022 in Abuja.
Buhari spoke at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja shortly before departing for London, United Kingdom.
He said everything will be done to ensure that the party holds the national convention as scheduled.
The reminded APC members how the relatively new party in 2015 beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls.
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“Well, they (APC members) should wait and see. How did we come as a party take power from the ruling party who had been there before us for so many years? So we have the capacity, everything will be alright”, the President stated.
Asked if a vacuum will not be created with his two-week long trip to the United Kingdom, Buhari who said he is not the only person doing the work stated that the Vice President is constitutionally empowered to take charge when he is away.
According to him, “I cannot claim to be doing the work alone. The government is fully represented, the Vice President is there, constitutionally when I’m away he’s in charge. And the Secretary to the Government and then the Chief of Staff too. So, we have no problem.”
President Buhari had since departed Abuja for London, the United Kingdom Kingdom for routine medical checks that may last two weeks.
The President’s official plane, Nigeria Air Force 1, took off Sunday morning from the Presidential wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu; and the Director-General of Department of State Security (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, and the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sanusi Lemu, were among those who saw him off.
The President, who returned from Nairobi, Kenya on Friday after attending a three-day international summit of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is expected to be away for maximum of two weeks.
His Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, had last week hinted that the routine medical check up of the President in London will not exceed two weeks.
