WHERE IS PRESIDENT BUHARI?

While scouting the internet this morning, on the page of one of the Nigerian newspapers, Vanguard specifically, is a statement credited to the Minister of Information and Communication, Chief Lai Mohammed, wherein he said "the president is not ill, not in the hospital".

This, of course, is a kind of statement that Nigerians who have been tracking events in the ongoing narrative regarding the health status and the location of President Muhammadu Buhari should be familiar with.

However, the issue that this author is concerned with in this saga goes beyond our familiarity with statements like the one alleged to have been made by Lai Mohammed. Since the issue of the President's vacation landed in the public corridors, one thing has remain constant, and it is the alarming level of contradiction that have become the order of the day in the information arm of the presidency.

Recall that on Saturday last week, about 24hours to the much publicised return of President Muhammadu Buhari from vacation, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina, via his Facebook page, released a statement announcing the postponement of the President's return at the 11th hour. The postponement, he said was to enable the President stay back, on the advise of his doctor, to collect the result of tests conducted on him. Inspite of the revelation, Lai Mohammed came out with this latest statement which by interpretation has obviously claimed that Femi Adeshina either lied or he was drunk at the time he released the statement announcing the change to the President's planned return. But to be honest, I will take Adeshina's statement over Lai's any time, and any day. Reason has been that Lai Mohammed, by antecedent, has proven to be politically unreliable. Femi Adeshina is not a saint either. But we can give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a man who is just coming into the world of politics where it could be a crime to be objective, unlike in the field of journalism from which he emigrated.

By the reason attributed to the unexpected deferment, it has become more obvious that Nigerians do not need rocket science to deduce that the President's state of healthiness is truly, not what the gigantic mirrors of Aso Rock are portraying it to be.

A critical look into the statement released by Adeshina and the one made by Lai Mohammed only make one wonder if they are working for the same man and purpose, or are getting the information from sources outside the presidency.

As far as this author is concerned, the statement ascribed to Lai Mohammed, if true, has done himself and his Boss no goodwill but only substantiate the assumption of some Nigerians that he is a liar, and that all may not be well with the President.

If by any chance Lai Mohammed is reading this, Nigerians want to know the location of President Buhari since he said the President is not in the hospital. More importantly, we want to know his state of health.

By: Stephen Adoga
adogasmedia@gmail.com

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