Charly BoyThe ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has reminded a show biz entertainer, Charly Boy, who is threatening to lead coalition of civil society groups to protest against President Muhammadu Buhari for not returning to Nigeria from his medical vacation, that governance is not the same thing as entertainment.
In a statement by the National Secretary of the APC Youths Renaissance, Collins Edwin, the APC said that it had wanted to dismiss Charly Boy’s threat knowing that he is an incurable attention-seeker, but that because he cleverly laced his mercantile show-business in President Buhari’s health challenge, “we have decided to educate the political dissident that governance is not entertainment.”
The group said that President Buhari has just spent few days receiving medical attention but that Charly Boy “and his dubious sponsors are making senseless noise about it, 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.
“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.
“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.” [myad]
