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Buhari’s Germany trip not for medicals, Gov Okorocha replies Junaid Mohammed

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Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has dismissed the claim by Dr Junaid Mohammed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Germany was for medical reasons.

Mohammed, a Kano-based social commentator had in a media interview claimed that the president’s trip to Germany was for medical purposes for an undisclosed illness.

However, Okorocha who happened to be one of President Buhari’s entourage to Berlin, Germany, on Sunday in Abuja refuted the claim, insisting that the three-day visit to Germany has no connection with medication.

He said, “President never went for any medical check-up. At least I was with him till 1.00a.m, after the dinner before I left him and he went to bed. And the following day I came out to see him in the morning. So, the president never went for any medical at all. The only hospital we went to was to see a general who had an accident.

“These are some of the things that people make uninformed comments and I do not know why in this part of our world we are always happy when someone is going down. I think there is need to change our attitude completely.”

Also commenting on the President’s wife, Aisha Buhari’s BBC interview and the husband’s reply Okorocha argued, “If you have been with the person of the President and where he cracks jokes, you will understand with me that it could be his style of jokes because even when he was responding, he was smiling, I don’t think the meaning that is given to it is what it is.”

He added that Mrs Buhari’s comments were targeted at making peace with perceived aggrieved members of the APC.

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