Politics Nobody Can Force Buhari To Talk About His Health – Presidency

[kemi]

The Presidency on Thursday again faulted the media reports President Muhammadu Buhari was sick.



There was fear and confusion in the country during the weekend when report cropped up in a section of the media that the president has passed on at the age of 74.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in an interview with CNBC Africa, insisted that Buhari’s trip to London was not on medical ground.

He said, “The President is in London on vacation. He is not in any hospital and he is not ill.

“When he was travelling last week, the statement we put out was that he was going on vacation and during the vacation, he would do routine medical check-up and nothing has changed from what we pushed out last week.

“If anybody has fed something else into the rumour mill, that is just what it is — rumour.”

Asked if Buhari would be willing to talk to Nigerians from the UK, Adesina said such a decision could only be taken by the President himself.

“The fact that he is a President, he still has his rights. Compelling him to come out and talk will be infringing on his rights.

“The President will talk if he wishes to. If he doesn’t wish to, nobody will compel him to talk.
“The truth is that the President is on vacation and he has given a date on which he will return to work,’’ Adesina said.

 

[airstar]

What is happening to "my Buhari"....the media should let him be, he's not dead.

 

[kayode ajayi]

What shall it profit the rumours mongers since the confusion the nation had at the death Yaradua can no longer be repeated.

 

[curator]

What shall it profit the rumours mongers since the confusion the nation had at the death Yaradua can no longer be repeated.

It is because of the Yaradua experience people are skeptical. During that particular exercise, we heard exactly the same thing till the very end. This is something the presidency could have ended considering the recent history in the country.

 

[kayode ajayi]

If our present democracy ever take a steep forward, it is the Yaradua case. It has set precedence.
God forbid that Buhari dies there is no more confusion on who is next.

 

[curator]

If our present democracy ever take a steep forward, it is the Yaradua case. It has set precedence.
God forbid that Buhari dies there is no more confusion on who is next.

You are making an assumption that the powers that be think much of anyone or anything! I hope all is well with the president for the sake of the poor who will be the real victim of the crisis that follows.