Lies! Nigerians want video, photo proof of Buhari, Fayose tells Osinbajo

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has accused Acting President Yemi Osinbajo of deceiving Nigerians with his visit to Muhammadu Buhari in London. He said that what Nigerians want is to see a video or photo of the ailing president.

The governor insisted that the visit is nothing but another attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government to deceive Nigerians on the state of health of the president.

He stated this in a statement he released on Wednesday through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

According to Fayose who had earlier alleged that Buhari has been on life support since June 6, “the president ‘s handlers should prove to Nigerians that he is not incapacitated by producing him to the public.”

The statement read further, “What Nigerians desire now is a live video of President Buhari addressing them, not a visit in which no pictorial (photo or video) was made available to the public.

“President Buhari has spent 65 days out of the country since he left on May 7, 2017 and no one has seen him. Yet, Nigerians are being told that the Acting President Osinbajo visited him with no picture, no video to show except that of his (Osinbajo) entering and leaving the Abuja House in London.”

“Today is July 12, making 115 days that President Buhari spent abroad taking care of his health out of the 193 days in 2017, and what Nigerians are being told is that Acting President Osinbajo met him secretly in London, this is ridiculous.

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“Should we be talking about President Buhari being met behind the camera by the Acting President at this time or the President resigning so that the country can move forward?

“Isn’t it funny that those who told Nigerians in 2010 that the health of the President, as a public figure cannot be of interest only to his families and friends and that Nigerians have a right to know the President’s state of health are the same people in power now and are feeding Nigerians with tales of Buhari being met behind camera by the Acting President?

“It is therefore my position that Nigerians do not need this drama of Osinbajo’s behind the camera meeting with Buhari. Rather, what we want is that the President should speak to Nigerians publicly and disabuse the minds of the people who are of the belief that he is already incapacitated and cannot continue as President.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

 

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