The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari has denied
media reports that he was terminally ill and was preparing
to go abroad for medical attention.
Buhari spoke to reporters at the Rivers State Governors’
Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Sunday.
Some Nigerian newspapers and on-line publications
reported that the former military ruler was terminally ill and
has been flown out of the country for medical attention.
He said the reports were orchestrated by desperate
individuals seeking to use it to gain undue political
advantage.
The APC candidate also used the occasion to debunk
allegations that his tenure at the defunct Petroleum Trust
Fund was riddled with corruption.
According to him, his tenure at the PTF was thoroughly
investigated and the report presented to the then President
Olusegun Obasanjo who recently confirmed it.
Buhari said, “(a national daily) reported that I was to jet out
for medical checkup yesterday but here I am. I was at
Nasarawa and Benue states yesterday; tomorrow I am
going to be in two states.
“The day after tomorrow, in two more states. I am doing
two states per day. How they got the impression that I was
sick I do not know. Although I got cold and that did not stop
me from going through my schedule.”
Commenting on medical documents purportedly confirming
his alleged poor state of health, Buhari said, “I don’t know
of this desperation.
“The issue we are telling Nigerians is that of corruption in
this country for the last 16 years the PDP has literally
destroyed this country.
“This is the issue and what has my health got to do with
that one, have I been sick on daily basis? And (that)
document has been put on paper, on tweeter that I am sick
and the ABU (Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital)
said they are forged documents. This desperation is beyond
my understanding.”
When pressed to make a categorical statement on his state
of health, Buhari jokingly asked the reporter, “how old are
you, 50 years?; I am telling you if go to the field, you would
not last the time I will last in the field.”
On his stewardship of the PTF, he said, “That one has been
cleared. There is no fraud in PTF, there was an
investigation and General Obasanjo has answered that
question, he confirmed that there was an investigation and
the report was brought to him and there was nothing on
ground as far as my management and chairmanship of the
PTF was concerned.
“So what else can I say? The person who did the
investigation because he was the Head of State he cleared
me so what else can I say?” CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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