Incumbent Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Friday claims that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who flew to the United Kingdom for a supposed working visit, is infact in a London hospital.
According to Fayose, Buhari is presently being treated at a hospital located at Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, W2 London West End, London.
The governor stated that this had vindicated his earlier claims that Buhari was sick and lacked the required capacity to rule Nigeria.
Lere Olayinka, Fayose's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, said his governor described the claim by the APC that Gen. Buhari would give a talk at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London as a “lie taken too far.”
He further said, “The event is visible on Royal Institute of International Affairs website; www.chathamhouse.org/events.
“For the avoidance of any doubt; the event’s keynote speakers are Celsius Amorin; Chief of the Defence Staff, UK Ministry of Defence, General Sir Nicholas Houghton; former Brazil Minister of Defence, Celsius Amorin; UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister of Defence Equipment Support and Technology, Chief Executive of BAE System, Ian King and Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Dr. Abdulatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani.
“Apart from the five persons listed above, twenty-five others are listed as speakers.
“So, we wonder in which Royal Institute of International Affairs’ event is Buhari participating as a speaker?
“This is not to mockery of Buhari or wish him dead. Rather, it is to reel out the falsehood of the APC and desperation of its leaders, most especially Senator Bola Tinubu to foist another Yar’Adua saga on Nigeria.”
The governor however, challenged the APC to prove him wrong.
“If the APC people are saying contrary, let them release the picture of Buhari boarding the plane and granting interview to aviation correspondents at the Abuja Airport.
“While I am pleased that the APC party members packaging Buhari finally listened to my plea to allow him (Buhari) to seek medical treatment abroad, I must say that it is unpatriotic for the APC to have lied that Buhari travelled on a working visit.
“The party should be honest enough to let Nigerians know that Buhari is actually ill and lack capacity to rule Nigeria and that they are only packaging him, hoping that he will become incapacitated if he becomes president so that they can take over power by proxy.”
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said his party was not ready to join issues with un-serious people, adding that those who are doubting General Buhari’s working visit could not be taken seriously and that they should prove it.
“We are not ready to join issues with un-serious people, but if they say General Buhari flew to UK for medical treatment, they should show us the photograph of Buhari on hospital bed,” Mohammed said.
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