Femi Adesina, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says the president never promised not to receive
medical treatment abroad.
He said this in reaction to a
statement in circulation quoting Buhari as making the promise while speaking as
a presidential candidate at Chatham House, London.
Buhari was alleged to have asked:
“What is the difference between me and those who elected us to represent them,
absolutely nothing. Why should Nigerian president not fly with other Nigerian
public? Why do I need to embark on a foreign trip as a president with a huge
crowd with public funds? Why do I need to go for a medical trip abroad if we
cannot make our hospital (sic) functional?”
But in a statement issued on
Wednesday, Adesina said the comments are false and are “a new dimension in the
plot to diminish the stature of President Muhammadu Buhari before millions of
Nigerians who love and adore their president”.
“First, it was a pernicious
twisting and misinterpretation of the words of the president by mischievous
elements, perhaps they can earn him opprobrium and infamy When they see that
the gambit is not achieving the desired results, they have now gone into utter
fabrication of apocryphal statements, which they purvey through the social
media,” he said.
“Fortunately, the Chatham House
lecture of 2015 is in the public domain. The concoction by haters and agents of
disunity is not part of the text of the lecture at all.
“The morbid minds that created
the falsehood simply want to de-market and demean the president, having seen
that defeating him in a free and fair electoral contest is a tall order.
“Therefore, they desire to instigate
the electorate against him by creating statements that never existed, and
attributing such to him.”
The presidential spokesman,
however, added that the “dubious” people will not succeed, as Buhari’s
reputation “has been built over time, and sustained for decades.”
“That is why he is widely
acclaimed for integrity, transparency, honour, and accountability, both home
and abroad. Negative minds can never erode or corrode this,” he said.
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ReplyDeleteFemi Adesina what about his statement of: we are not going to spend 110 days globe throttling. Have you forgotten when he said that no government official should fly first class. But his daughter Halima flew in first class. What about when he said no government should seek treatment abroad?. This government is filled with lies + Lai Mohammed the liar.
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