Your hate speech nothwitstanding, Buhari is fit to lead again, group tells Trump

The Buhari Media Organization, BMO, has hit back at President Donald Trump of the United States, telling him that President Muhammadu Buhari is fit and capable to lead Nigeria for another four years.

The BMO was reacting to a report which quoted Trump as referring to Buhari as ‘lifeless’.

The Trump statement was said to be a description of his meeting with the Nigerian leader in Washington in April 2018, insisting that he would not want to meet such a person again.

The BMO described the statement as a hate speech and a disrespectful comment that inputs ill health on Buhari.

“President Muhammadu Buhari is fit and capable to run for the 2019 elections and oversee the affairs of the country for four more years President Donald Trump’s hate speech notwithstanding”, the group said.

In a statement signed by Niyi Akinsiji and Cassidy Maduekwe, Chairman and Secretary respectively, the BMO said that this was not the first time President Trump was making such derogatory remarks about World leaders, and such, President Buhari would not be distracted.

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“We are aware that President Trump’s disrespect for World Leaders is not new; his comments on Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling him ‘meek and mild’; his reference to Germany’s Leader, Angela Merkel’s actions as ‘insane’, or his outlandish Tweet at the UK’s Theresa May, and more recently, the alleged remarks he made after meeting President Buhari.

“It is indeed not the first time President Trump would be heard to lower the standards of respect for his colleagues on the World Stage. We are not surprised, we know that this age-long character of the US President would not change anytime soon. But it is important that we put it on record that President Buhari remains fit and sprightly, even for the next decade”, they added.

“We recall that during President Buhari’s visit to Trump in the White House, the US President commended the successes that the Buhari administration had recorded especially in the fight against insurgency and the war on corruption. The US President was full of admiration for Nigeria’s President during the visit, thus such outlandish remarks as reported by the Financial Times are not just to be taken with a pinch of salt but are untrue in themselves.”

The group also insisted that President Buhari has continued to show fitness and capacity to run the country post-2019, adding that though the President’s 800 metre walk, where he acknowledged the cheers of members of his constituency, was not intended at showboating, it was an unscripted reference point that further proves a fit and lively President.

 

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