Don’t play politics with President’s health’

The Special Adviser, Bureau of Political, Legislative Affairs and Water Resources to the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Ekong Sampson, has warned Nigerians against playing politics with President Muhammadu Buhari’s health.
Speaking with our correspondent in Uyo on Tuesday, Sampson said at a time like this Nigerians were supposed to be praying for the quick recovery of the President.
He added that nobody was immune to sickness or disease.
According to him, Nigeria needs Buhari, whose policies are firm on corruption, to be able to drive the economy of the country beyond the enviable height.
“It has become very important at a time like this for us, Nigerians, to sincerely pray for the health of our President.
“Anybody can fall sick any time, but when we consider the importance of a healthy President to drive the economy, it is then bad to play politics with his health, rather we have to pray for his recovery,” he said.
The SA, who also talked about the last election of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties in Uyo on Saturday, noted that there was hope for the country’s democracy considering the pattern of the election.
He maintained that the manner in which the CNPP conducted its activities in the state was aimed at expanding the frontiers of democracy and deepening the bond among Akwa Ibom people.
Sampson, however, praised the Akwa Ibom State chapter of CNPP for the high level of maturity it demonstrated in the conduct of elections of its executives.
He thanked the CNPP for keying into state government’s programmes and also its beliefs in the Governor Udoh Emmanuel’s administration.
Sampson stated that the governor was taking the lead in exploring avenues to industrialise and diversify the economy of the state and also looking beyond the attractions of the mono-dependent economy.
He said the disharmony in the Nigerian polity today stemmed from allowing the pre-eminence of politics over policy.
Describing such as obsolete and futile in the face of current socio-economic and political realities, he urged Federal Government to learn from the Akwa Ibom example, explore areas for cooperation and partnership and allow policy to drive politics.