With
the dust yet to settle over an interview Aisha Buhari granted the British Broadcasting Corporation,
a Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has stated that the President’s
recent trip to Germany was for medical reasons.
Mohammed,
a Russian-trained medical doctor, revealed this in an interview .
Mrs.
Buhari had accused an unnamed cabal, made up of individuals who were not part
of the struggle for Buhari’s emergence as president, of having hijacked the
Presidency.
Expressing
her frustration, Mrs. Buhari threatened not to support any attempt by her
husband to re-contest in 2019 if things do not change.
Mohammed
alleged that the president’s handlers were making similar mistakes committed by
those who served as close advisers to ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua.
According
to him, Buhari was in Germany to receive treatment for an undisclosed ailment
but his handlers arranged a state visit in an attempt to mask the truth.
Mohammed
said, “The reason the president travelled to Germany was not what it was
advertised to be. The trip is basically a medical trip. It was undertaken for
medical reasons. It was only converted to a state visit as an afterthought and
that tells you the level of contempt the handlers of the president have for
Nigerians. We blamed the handlers of Yar’Adua for the way they kept his ailment
secret.
“Now,
Nigerians have a big surprise awaiting them. They have not been told the truth
about the real state of the man’s (Buhari) health. He is our president.
Nigerians elected him into office and we must never allow individuals to play
with our intelligence and do something stupid and dangerous to our country. I
hope and pray that next time, the Nigerian people would be told the truth. It’s
a medical trip; they (handlers) issued statements to camouflage the real reason
behind the trip.”
The
former lawmaker stated that those behind the cover-up did not love the
president more than Nigerians who voted him into office.
Mohammed
also accused those criticising Mrs. Buhari of hypocrisy.
He
pointed out that although most of the people would not like to admit it, a good
number of them including members of the All Progressives Congress who have been
denied access to Buhari, had taken their case to her as a last resort.
“The
president’s wife as far as I am concerned, did not speak out for any personal
gain. She has her husband’s best interest at heart. I have no doubt she is in
touch with ordinary Nigerians and enjoys the confidence of many and she chose
to speak for them. Although she exercised a lot of restraint by refusing to
name names, we all know that Mamman Daura does not have a voter card,” he said.
Source:The Punch
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