BUHARI has done nothing wrong, Osibanjo is Acting President - Sen. Gbolahan

Reactions have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to the senate where he asked the Vice President to coordinate the activities of the government without necessarily referring to him as the Acting President.

The letter has continued to raise dust and overheating the polity.

However, a lawmaker, Prince Gbolahan Dada, representing Ogun West has insisted that the president did the right thing by transmitting power through a letter to the senate, insisting that Yemi Osinbajo is the Acting President, according to the constitution.

Senator Gbolahan in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST said going by section 145 of the 1999 constitution as amended, Vice president, Osinbajo is the acting president of Nigeria in the absence of the president.

According to him, ‘’The president has done what he is supposed to do. Whenever a president is leaving the country to attend any function, what he should do is to transmit letter to the senate, the law is very clear on section 145 of the 1999 constitution which stipulates that where the president is absent, the vice president acts, and that’s what he has done. He must transmit a letter to the senate indicating his intention to travel.’