Dipo Olowookere
**Threatens to Expose Party’s Members Behind Protest
By Dipo Olowookere
Popular entertainment and social activist, Mr Charles Oputa, otherwise known as Charly Boy, has been informed to forget about nursing the notion that President Muhammadu Buhari will resign from office.
A group known as the APC Youths Renaissance, in a statement signed by its National Secretary, Mr Collins Edwin, and made available to Business Post on Sunday claimed that the planned protest against Mr Buhari by coalition of civil society groups led by Charly Boy was sponsored by some politicians.
President Buhari has been away for nearly three months to London for medical attention and the society groups want him to resign. He left Nigeria precisely on May 7, 2017.
But APC Youths Renaissance, which described Charly Boy as “an incurable attention-seeker”, disclosed that “President Buhari has just spent few days receiving medical attention and Charly Boy and his dubious sponsors are making senseless noise about it.”
In the statement, the APC group asked “what about a former American President who ruled America in the midst of greater health challenge yet Americans never gave a hoot about it?”
“In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated until the end of his presidency, yet Americans did not call for his resignation or impeachment, but here in Nigeria, we have a President who is only on a medical check-up and some group of attention-seekers are making it to look as if it is anathema,” the statement said.
“For Charly Boy and his sponsors to organise such protest against our darling President, we have resolved and are going to stage a counter protest that will show the world that President Muhammadu Buhari is truly loved by Nigerians despite the media gang up against him,” the group said.
It further said, “We have also collected the comprehensive list of politicians within and outside the APC who are sponsoring the protest and negative publicity against Buhari and will make it public for Nigerians to see who and who is actually preventing good governance from happening in the country.”
