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Arise Television’s Morning Show anchor, Rufai Oseni, has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his failure to formally transfer presidential authority during his recent absence from Nigeria.

Oseni said Tinubu had established a “bad precedent” by not handing over power after spending more than 21 days outside the country.

He also faulted the National Assembly, particularly the Senate led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, for failing to hold the President accountable over the matter.

Oseni made the remarks on Wednesday while analysing Tinubu’s absence from Nigeria and the role played by the National Assembly during the period.

He said, “President Tinubu has set a bad precedent by not handing over after 21 days.

“Moreover, the National Assembly, which is a big rubber stamp — and let me use the word, a placeholder National Assembly — has set an equally worse precedent by not holding him accountable.

“With the precedent we have set today, President, you know, please, you can go as much as you want. You don’t even need to write the National Assembly because they are placeholders.”

“In all of this, what was the Senate President doing? He was going to say, ‘I’m not the president; stop calling me the acting president, too.’ All of them were away.

“There was a time, even he was in Rome, the Vice President was out of the country, and President Tinubu was in France,” he said.

The television anchor also raised questions about Akpabio’s position during the President’s absence, pointing out that both the Senate President and Vice President were at different times outside the country while Tinubu was abroad.

“And how did the supporters pay him back when he came? They lined up all the streets of Lagos.

“So today, we now welcome back people who break and violate the Constitution and clap for them,” Oseni added.

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