NewsYou Can’t Compare Buhari’s Case To Yar’Adua’s – Lai Mohammed

You Can’t Compare Buhari’s Case To Yar’Adua’s – Lai Mohammed

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BEVERLY HILLS, February 9, (THEWILL) – Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has declared that it is wrong to compare the situation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s health situation with the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s.

Mohammed insisted that there was secrecy around late President Yar’Adua’s health until his situation became critical but maintained that Buhari is simply on vacation in Britain and has been asked by doctors to extend his stay for some tests.

“I think it was one of the newspapers that said when I was the spokesman of Action Congress (AC) I demanded for hourly bulletin on Yar’Adua’s health and that I ought to be giving hourly bulletin as minister of Information on the health of the President,” he stated.

“And I said ‘you are comparing apples and oranges’. Mr. President is not ill; he is not in hospital. There will be no need to give anybody hourly bulletin about his health – pure and simple.

“Mr. President, like I said elsewhere, is a victim of his own transparency. He was going on leave; he did what the constitution said he should do. He transmitted a letter to the National Assembly and an acting president was put in place and he said ‘while I am on leave I am going to conduct some medical tests, which all of us do without announcing it.

“And, of course, less than six hours after he got there he was pronounced dead by some people. Even those who saw him climb the aircraft in Abuja said he was flown by air ambulance.

“The rumours on the President’s health were part of the backlash against his anti-corruption war. Those behind his death rumours are looters and victims of his anti-graft battle.

“I can assure you that Mr. President is well, he is hale and hearty and no cause for concern. The Acting President speaks to him every day and he told you so.

“I won’t blame Mr. President too because this is the third time you are declaring him dead.

“To say Mr. President cannot go on vacation that is ridiculous. Absolutely yes. Our constitution guarantees that. Did Obama not go on leave? Do other presidents not go on leave? Mr. President will go on vacation when he has to go on vacation. Do you know how many ministers have gone on vacation this year?

“I think I can say without any equivocation that he is well, he is hale and he is hearty; no question about that. You see on a lighter note, do you think Mr. President will be ill and we will be here and go about our business like this?

“Fashola was in Anambra two three days ago, I was in Ilorin on Monday, all our ministers are busy. But I want to assure you that Mr. President is well and he is absolutely in no danger.”

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