Here’s my number, call me to prove you are healthy, Fayose challenges Buhari

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state is obviously not convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari is hale and hearty, as claimed by the presidency.

The governor has said that rather than shop for outsiders to speak with to prove to Nigerians that Buhari is hale and hearty, the president should be encouraged instead to speak with him (Fayose).

He said he can be reached on 08035024994 since the the presidency is keen for Buhari to speak to people; believing this will convince Nigerians that their President is hale and hearty.

“I advised the President to speak with me for the purpose of convincing Nigerians that he is hale and hearty instead of looking for people outside the country to convince Nigerians.”

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose picked holes in statements that Buhari had spoken in one week, first with the king of Morocco and next with the president of the African Union.

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“If their problem is that they are looking for a credible person who can help them convince Nigerians that all is well with our President, Ayo Fayose is their best bet. Let the president speak with me. If I tell Nigerians that the president spoke with me, Nigerians will believe”, he said.

Nigerians, he added, are getting suspicious of all the purported visits to Buhari in London as well as his orchestrated telephone conversations with international figures who Nigerians cannot trust to give a true and unbiased report about the president’s state of health.

“Since they are eager for the president to speak to people; believing in this way to convince Nigerians that their President is hale and hearty, let President Buhari talk to me. I can be reached on 08035024994. I am credible and Nigerians will believe me”, he said.

“They said he spoke to President Donald Trump; despite the hype, Nigerians were sceptical. Then they said he spoke to the king of Morocco; again, Nigerians were suspicious. Before we recovered from that, it is now the AU president that they said President Buhari spoke to.

“A president that can speak with outsiders should be able to whisper or wave to his own people. The people gave him the very important platform of President on which he stands today and, therefore, Presidential aides should stop giving the unhelpful impression that Buhari has no respect for the Nigerian electorate.

Buhari left Nigeria on January 19 on a medical vacation, and has not returned since then.

 

 

 

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