[Video] Believe in 'One-Nigeria' to your peril: As Charlie Boy prepares to die for one Nigeria. Slumps under police brutality

[Video] Believe in 'One-Nigeria' to your peril: As Charlie Boy prepares to die for one Nigeria. Slumps under police brutality 

Popular musician and ardent supporter of 'One-Nigeria', Charles Oputa, a.k.a Charly Boy, collapsed in Abuja following inhalation of tear gas canisters shot at him and other protesters demanding that Nowhere-to-be-found Muhammadu Buhari resumes office or resigns if incapable of continuing his duties as president of Nigeria. 

Watch video of Charlie Boy collapsing below.

The daily sit-out protest embarked upon by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, led by Charly Boy and Deji Adeyanju, one of the conveners and others, on Monday and which continued on Tuesday at the Abuja House in London and at the Millennium park, opposite the Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja in Nigeria, turned sour when the anti-riot policemen began firing tear gas canisters and high velocity stream of water to disperse them. 

[Video] Believe in One-Nigeria to your peril: As Charlie boy prepares to die for one Nigeria. Slumps under police brutality

A journalist and one other protester also got wounded. Also, one of the conveners of the protest, Deji Adeyanju, tweeted a video of their visit to a Silverbird Journalist and another wounded citizen at a clinic situated at the Federal Secretariat complex. 

The protesters under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians and “Our Mumu Don Do” Advocacy, who marched from Unity Fountain near the Transcorp Hilton Hotel to the gate of Presidential Villa, where they made their demands. 

They lamented that for over 90 days President Buhari left and lived outside the country leaving room for persons they referred to as unelected individuals to manipulate the institutions of state. They also accused his aides and associates of stage managing Buhari’s health status and failing to open up to Nigerians to the true situation with the president. 

Watch video of Charlie Boy collapsing.

Nigerian protesters demand sick President Buhari return or quit - AFP

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari left for London in early May

Nigerian protesters demanded Monday that President Muhammadu Buhari, receiving treatment in London for an undisclosed ailment for more than three months, either return or resign.

Buhari left for the British capital on May 7 on what is his latest medical trip, appointing Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to act on his behalf.

Dozens of protesters marched in heavy rain to the presidential villa in Abuja with banners urging that the 74-year-old retired general, who headed a military regime in the 1980s, return.

"Resume or resign, Nigerians say enough is enough," one said, with others stating: "If president Buhari cannot return to Nigeria after 90 days, then he should resign and go home", and "Buhari, where are you? Nigerians want full disclosure. What is wrong with our president?"

The peaceful march was organised by a coalition of civil society groups under the supervision of security agents.

"We are here today because the president of Nigeria has absconded from duty," said Deji Adeyanju, one of the organisers.

"He has not only absconded, he has continued to lie to us. This year alone the president has been away for 144 days.

"He was away for 52 days in January and he has been away again today for 92 consecutive days. This cannot continue."

Buhari has been dogged by speculation about his health since June last year when he first went to London for treatment of what the presidency said was a persistent ear infection.

He then spent nearly two months in London in January and February and said on his return in early March that he had "never been so ill".

Last month, members of the ruling party and the opposition went to see him in London and even took pictures in an attempt to douse public anxiety.

The health of Nigeria's leaders has been a sensitive issue since the death in office of president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in 2010 after months of treatment abroad.

Buhari's main opponents in the 2015 election that brought him to power claimed he had prostate cancer. He denied the claim.