What ‘Acting President’ Saraki Told Osinbajo At Second Term Inauguration

VP Yemi Osinbajo has said that Senate President Bukola Saraki facetiously requested that he be 'cautious' as he (Saraki) was the 'Acting President' before Muhammadu Buhari was confirmed as President for a second term on Wednesday.

Compact News reports that Osinbajo expressed this at a supper sorted out to pay tribute to President Buhari and himself at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.

Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, had prior in the day sworn in Buhari and Osinbajo for a second term in office.

This news medium comprehends that Buhari, booked to leave for Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, May 30, for OIC summit, was spoken to at the supper by Osinbajo.

"Something fascinating happened before today; I am a legal counselor and a law instructor and I like to test and cross examine legitimate situations," the VP said.

"At one moment past midnight today, the multi year term of the President and I finished by effluxion of time.

"Along these lines, from one moment past 12 of the previous evening, May 29 to about 10:30 am the point at which we were confirmed for a second term there was no President or Vice President.

"Strikingly nothing turned out badly, everything was alright; when such a circumstance emerges, it is the Senate President who goes about as President.

"Along these lines, when I touched base at Eagle Square toward the beginning of today, some may have seen that the Senate President and I were getting a charge out of a joke.

"He said to me tongue in cheek 'you should be cautious you realize I am the acting President now'; in this way, we thank the Senate President for not doing anything clever.''

Osinbajo said that the excellence of majority rule government was the precise and edified procedure of progress and all the more critically, the holiness of and regard for the will and decision of the general population.