Presidency Dispels Rumour On Buhari’s Health, Says President Is Neither Sick Nor In London Hospital

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By Sadiq Umar – The Presidency has dispelled rumour making the round that President Muhammadu Buhari is critically ill with a terminal disease, saying nothing could be farther than the truth.

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina who spoke in an interview with CNBC monitored in Abuja said President Buhari was neither ill nor on admission in any hospital in London as widely reported.

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

Adding: “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”, Adesina said.

On whether the President would speak from his vacation to lay to rest the speculations, Mr. Adesina retorted: “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,’’ he said.

Earlier, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohamed had described the speculations as “subversive.”

Mr. Muhammed told Nigerians “to disregard the subversive messages being circulated via text messaging and the Social Media, saying the fabricated messages are being orchestrated by those who feel threatened by the emerging order.”

“There is no iota of truth in the messages being circulated on the health of the President, who is hale and hearty, and the purported emergency meetings of the State Governors in Abuja or anywhere,” Mr. Mohammed said in a statement.

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