By Uche Mbah
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-kayode, has asked the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to resign his appointment, having been “Skillfully and technically castrated”. In a series of tweets, Fanni-kayode said that there is one thing left for the vice president to do: Resign.
“Your boss @MBuhari left the country without transferring power to you. You have been stripped of all your power & authority and left with only 5 aides in the Presidency. Your Pol. Advisor has been directed to leave the Villa and report to the Ministry of Information & Culture.
“All the parastatals and agencies that were under you have been taken away and you are no longer involved in helping to determine economic policy. It appears to me that you have been skillfully and clinically castrated! How many more insults will you take before you resign?
“There is only one thing worse than being a spare tyre & that is being a spare tyre that is flat and that can never be used. Must you wait till they hold you by the scruff of the neck and throw you out? Have you no self-respect, honor or dignity left? You deserve to be pitied!”, he tweeted.
President Mohammed Buhari is currently in Russia attending an African summit with Vladmir Putin, leaving the Vice President to preside over the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. It is not clear whether whatever decision arrived at will have to wait for the Approval of President Buhari when he arrives back in the country, judging by the fact that he-Buhari-did not transmit power to the Vice President before his travels.
There is always the tendency to reverse osinbajo’s decisions in Buhari’s absence, even when he has transferred the decisions to him as Acting President. Some of his current travails is said to be because he took decisions against the interest of his principal when he was Acting President.
