We need to be reassured Buhari hasn’t been whisked out of the country —Fani-Kayode

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said it was needful to reassure Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari was still in the country.

There have been rumours that both Buhari and his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari were suffering from Covid-19 and had been flown abroad for treatment.

The rumours started after Kyari was earlier in the week confirmed positive with the deadly virus.

The rumours have since been refuted by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and the Presidency.

However, apparently owing to Buhari’s refusal to physically address Nigerians as the coronavirus cases continue to worsen in the country, Fani-Kayode wrote on his Twitter handle-@realFFK:

“We need to be reassured that our President has not been whisked out of the country and that he has not been afflicted with Covid 19 or any other debilitating & life-threatening illness. We also need to be reassured that he is indeed Muhammadu Buhari and not Jubril Al Sudani.

“To say that it is “his style” to ignore his people and treat them with contempt at a time of national crisis is disrespectful, disingenuous and downright insulting. The Nigerian people deserve a far better quality of leadership than that.

“If he is too sick to continue he should resign & let someone else take over the reigns of power but if he is well enough to continue he should get off his high horse, purge himself of his contempt for our people, come clean & behave like a responsible modern-day leader & not a feudal Arab Sheik or primitive tribal warlord.

“The Nigerian people & indeed the entire world are facing an existential threat & the greatest challenge in their entire history &this is not the time to play games or act as if all is well &that our house is not on fire.

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“We need a leader that can inspire, encourage & reassure us & that is strong, healthy, focused, purposeful, decisive, sensitive, compassionate, alive to his responsibilities & forward-thinking. We do NOT need a power-mad, tyrannical, vain & irresponsible megalomaniac & antedeluvian relic who has lost touch with reality, who no longer knows who, what or where he is and who is suffering from senility, delusions of grandeur, an identity crisis and the misplaced notion that he is not accountable to God and to the people.”

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