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The apex northern soci-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday said that the Nigerian constitution did not assign any role specifically for the office of the vice president and cautioned some Nigerians against fuelling crisis in the presidency.

ACF’s secretary general, Mr Anthony Sani, while reacting to insinuation by some Nigerians that the office of the vice had been relegated, said the constitution empowers the president to assign roles to the vice president.

“I am finding it hard to make out why the hue and cry about what is happening in the office of the vice president by way of some reorganisation of some functions and reassignment of some staff in the vice president’s office by the presidency.

“More so that both the presidency and the vice president have dispelled any misconception that there is a crimp between the president and the vice president,” Sani said, insisting that the constitution did not provide for any specific roles for the office of the vice president.

“Any function performed by the office of the vice president are at the pleasure of the president who has the right to assign and reassign both functions and the staff in the office of the vice president.

“If Mr President has decided to reorganise some of the functions hitherto performed by the office of the vice president as well as to reduce the reported 80 staff in the office of the vice president by 35 staff for performance, it is the constitutional discretion of Mr President to do so, and there should be no qualms,” Sani said.

As regards the president’s not transmitting a letter to the national assembly and not handing over to the vice president this time around that he travelled out, Sani said it was important to note that the constitution makes transmission of the letter mandatory only when the president would be absent from his duty post for at least 21 days.

“If the days of the absence from duty post are less than 21 days, I believe the president has the discretion to either transmit the letter to the national assembly and hand over to his sidekick or not. If the president has chosen to exercise his constitutional discretion this time around not to transmit the letter to NASS and hand over to the vice president because the days of his absence are less than 21 days, that is his constitutional right,” Sani added.

He said the current developments in the office of the vice president are not enough signs of a divided presidency, adding that the presidency had made clear of that.

“More so that the principal actors have said there is no problems between them.

But should there be any crimp in the presidency, my plead is for the president and the vice president to work hard and overcome what is trying to put the presidency asunder.This is very necessary because only purposeful leadership that comes from united presidency with clear thought and morality can deliver on the promise of the electoral mandate freely given by Nigerians,” he said.

https://leadership.ng/2019/11/10/constitution-did-not-provide-specific-role-for-vps-office-acf/

Mark my words, the north will still return to power come 2023.

Nothing you can tell me ACF..

ABBA Kyari is the defacto Vice President and Osibanjo na VP Academics aka audio VP

This must be a joke

Gon gon gon

Oh well... Too many loopholes

They are right though! The Office Of The Vice President na wash! Vice Presidents are Figure Heads, puppets. The VPs office is more of a consolation

The president determines the role of the VP and the president has given him roles, but Aba Kyari is giving orders different from that of the president, claiming that such orders are from the president.

Jeez! It's now a tribal thing. Areas is the one replying no more presidency.

But the VP is put in charge of economic management by the constitution.

Moral lesson: Be careful of the lion you breed.

Happy Sunday

They called the VP a sidekick,

They have turned the VP as office assistant, that boy wey them dey send go outside go buy mineral for them.

Just read it.

No space for arewa consultative forum in the constitution they should also shut up

In everything they are hypocritical

Arewa....rubbish group

DonFreshmoney:
Nothing you can tell me ACF..

ABBA Kyari is the defacto Vice President and Osibanjo na VP Academics aka audio VP

VP Administration

Cc lzaa gmbuharii

Ok

Udonmeanit

We should look Northern Nigeria directly to their eyeball and call their bluff or even create a visa regime between us.. Heaven won't fall.

Osinbajo can start sleeping at home now and get paid for doing nothing.

So much for those people that voted Buhari because " Osinbajo is learned, he will be the one running the government ideas"

Yet, that Shameless unreasonable boy that called himself allthingsgood says Nigerians should be grateful to the north. How that boy uses his brain really baffles me. The north fought civil war for oil, but his half-baked education made him think that the North was fighting for Nigeria.

This guy needs emergency neurological diagnostic test

DonFreshmoney:
Nothing you can tell me ACF..

ABBA Kyari is the defacto Vice President and Osibanjo na VP Academics aka audio VP

audio vp

The Constitution therefore must be changed

Subzero047:
Gon gon gon

Make e no be u o!

Yemi don suffer for villa

Slave and master rift, nothing serious.

Edygrin:
Mark my words, the north will still return to power come 2023.

There's no argument. Only some zombies from the SW thought they can do collabo with the North, they refused to learn from history.

Edygrin:
Mark my words, the north will still return to power come 2023.

May God bless you... only Youruba Muslims will argue with this known fact

Charleys:
They called the VP a sidekick,

They have turned the VP as office assistant, that boy wey them dey send go outside go buy mineral for them.

Just read it.

Real office assistant