Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the rumour
about President Muhammadu Buhari being dead and replaced by a certain Jubril
from Sudan as ridiculous.
Speaking at a youth mentorship session in Ogun on Sunday,
Obasanjo cited the rumour as one of the instances in which social media is
being abused.
The rumoured death of the president, which has been found to
be false and without any proof, is often peddled by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
Indigeous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Speaking at the session, Obasanjo recalled how someone once approached him, asking if he believes the rumour.
He said: “Somebody came to me, in very high hope, and said,
‘this talk about Buhari not being Buhari…’. I said, ‘do you believe this?’ He
said, ‘well, it is in the social media’. I said ‘Buhari died and we will not
know that Buhari has died? And they will bring us somebody from Sudan to be
Buhari?’
“It’s ridiculous to the extreme. But you have it in social
media and you see people believing it. Social media have done good but it can
be abused and misused.”
The rumour is filled in part by the presidency’s refusal to
disclose the status of Buhari’s health whenever he goes on a medical trip.
The president had to personally dismiss it in 2018 while
speaking at a town hall session with Nigerians in Poland.
“A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill-health.
Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy
because they assumed I was dead.”
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