“I’m absolutely under no pressure to resign” – Osinbajo | WATCH

Nigeria’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said he was under no pressure to resign from his post addressing rumours for the first time that he was pressured by a special interest to vacate his position.

Osinbajo spoke to reporters at the State House, Abuja after a meeting with the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun.

“I’m absolutely under no pressure to resign. In any event, I was voted for by the people of this nation. Myself and Mr President, and the people of this nation have not asked us to resign. So I have absolutely no pressure whatsoever and the truth is that there have been absolutely no pressure whatsoever from any source asking me to resign,” Osinbajo said.

The acting President stated that Buhari is ‘hale and hearty’ and he just had a long phone conversation with him on the state of the nation, debunking rumours over his health issues.

“Let me say that the President is hale and hearty. I spoke to him just this afternoon and we had a very long conversation. He was interested in knowing about the budget process and how far we had gone. As you know, we had a meeting today with the private sector on the economic recovery plan.

“Of course I informed him about some of what we are seeing – the protests, marches and all of that, some of the feedback and what people are saying about the economy. He is in good shape, he was very chatty and we had a good conversation this afternoon.”

He declined to disclose the exact state of the president’s health, noting that only the president had the right to disclose such information to the public.

“I think that the health status of Mr President is a fact or issue that only Mr President himself will be able to discuss at the appropriate time.”

“Again, he is running tests and before you determine your health status you must be able to say, this is my health status. If I’m running tests; doing some routine and some that my doctors have asked me to do, then surely I must await the outcome of that before I talk about any kind of status,” he said.