The Presidency has rubbished claims by Nnamdi Kanu, leader
of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), that President Muhammadu Buhari is
Jubril of Sudan.
Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity said it is
“idiocy” to claim that the president is dead and was replaced with Jubril from
Sudan.
Adesina disclosed this in his latest article titled, ‘The
Essential Buhari: VP Osinbajo got it!.’
He recalls how Buhari, upon return from his medical trip
abroad in 2017, recognised him.
The article reads partly: “I remember that day in August
2017, when the President returned to the country finally from his medical
vacation. From January of that year, he had been in and out a couple of times,
but spending weeks and months outside, attending to his health. And finally, on
August 19, he returned home, triumphantly.
“We were at the airport to receive him. I have told the
story a number of times, to dispel the idiocy that it was a certain Jibril of
Sudan that came back and not Buhari. The daughter of the immediate past Chief
of Defence Staff, Gen Gabriel Olonisakin, was getting married. And I had
attended both the church service and reception, decked in full Yoruba
traditional attire of Agbada and a cap to match. Straight from the ceremony, I
went to the airport to join the welcome party for the President.
“We the principal aides were on a line to receive the
President as he descended from the aircraft. And he shook hands with each
person, having one wisecrack or the other to say, as is typical of him. When he
got to me, he said, “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” And we
both laughed.
“Jibril of Sudan? How did he know I was Adesina? How would
he know how I normally dressed? Idiocy, I say again. But that is just a
digression, not the story I really want to tell to support the topic at hand.”
Kanu had rumoured Buhari’s death in 2017, following the
president’s medical trip to London.
He had claimed that Buhari was cloned and replaced with
Jubril Al-Sudan after his death.
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