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General News of Monday, 20 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Abba Kyari was Nigeria's de facto president - Yoruba group

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The Yoruba World Congress, YWC, has reacted to the empathies shown to the late chief of staff to the president, Abba Kyari.

Kyari who was buried on Saturday after he died as a result of coronavirus was described by the YWC as Nigeria’s de facto President.

This is contained in a statement by YWC President, Prof. Banji Akintoye, which was issued by Adeyemi Adeleye, the Director of Communication.

“Our position is that Nigeria is being run as a Banana Republic; a country in which the structure of government depends on the whims and caprices of the leader of the government”, Akintoye said.

He also described as absurd the fact that appointed public office holders had to go through the chief of staff before they could see the president.

“We are talking of high public officials such as governors, ministers, ambassadors, top federal career civil servants, National Assembly members and, to our collective embarrassment, the Vice-President.

“A Chief of Staff is no more than the head of the president’s kitchen cabinet, the president’s collection of personal staff, that has no superiority to the structural pillars established by the constitution of Nigeria.

“Abba Kyari’s unconstitutional position as de facto president in recent times, coupled with an elected President who is periodically nowhere to be found, has seriously denuded the legitimacy of government in our country.”

“We have a Vice President who has been boxed into a disrespectful corner simply because he does not belong to the self-appointed owners of our country,” he added.