The Personal Assistant to
President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, on Wednesday said
Buhari reserves the right to keep his health status private because some people
despite being in, “public service are private people and they like to keep
their personal lives out of the public domain.”
Onochie said this while
describing those demanding that Buhari should disclose his health status as
ignorant of the 1999 constitution.
In a statement on her Facebook,
the Presidential aide said it is not mandatory for Buhari to disclose his
health details, adding that “he’s not under any obligation to do so.”
Onochie also said it is wrong to
compare the Buhari’s health situation with that of late President Musa
Yar’Adua.
She wrote: “Every human being on
earth, reserves his/her rights to Privacy. Not only in Nigeria but in every
nation. That’s what separates us from animals.
“Some people in public service
are private people in that they like to keep their personal lives out of the
public domain. Others place their personal lives in the public domain for all
to see. Its an individual choice.
“Since Pres. Buhari travelled on
medical vacation, some people have been ignorantly calling on him to address
the nation. But that’s because they do not understand the 1999 constitution.
Having a leader who adheres to the provisions of our constitution, is new to
all of us. That Pres. Buhari transmuted power to his Vice to become Acting
President, is totally new to in our nation.
“Many of us are yet to fully
understand what it means and its implications. Sadly, those who should be
educating Nigerians on the full implication of the process, are quite happy to
cry louder, in ignorance than the protest merchants.
“We will all learn. Some of us,
faster, some slower. Like Alledeh guy or whatever he’s called, whose experience
of politics has been PDP and nothing else.
“But mischief makers, never. This inability to
accept this positive change is the reason we find ignorant, confused and
uneducated people comparing cotton and silk.
“In the case of Late Pres.
YarAdua, the National Assembly was not informed nor were the people Nigeria
informed that he was going on a medical leave. He also DID NOT hand over to his
Vice. So, he took the power to run Nigeria with him. That is NOT the case today
as ignoramuses would have you believe.
“During the slap and spit on our
constitution by PDP’s Pres. YarAdua, the then General Buhari, a man of
integrity who had and still has the utmost respect for our laws and our
constitution, joined other well-meaning Nigerians to call on Pres. YarAdua to order.
“Ronald Reagan as President of
America, had colon cancer. He never disclosed it. Americans did not know about
it. Neither did they hold him down by the throat to tell them what ailed him.
That was his personal grief to deal with. It was part of his life he CHOSE to
make private. And Americans respected his rights to Privacy. Yes they did.
“Barrenness is an illness that
doctors treat. The British people are not holding down Mrs. Theresa May to
declare why she cannot have children or to state the status of her husband’s
sperm count. No! She chose to tell them about her struggles with Diabetes. But
the other health issues, she CHOSE to keep private.
“If leaders cannot exercise a
degree of privacy, then, we must demand access to their bedrooms so we all are
acquainted with how they relate with their wives and husbands.
“It’s a personal choice
individual leaders would make. If President Buhari decides to publish the
details of his health records, it would be his personal decision to do so. But
It’s not mandatory and he’s not under any obligation to do so.”
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