The Federal Government has debunked reports in the section of the press that governors are meeting in Abuja on Thursday to send an emissary to see President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated the position on Thursday in Abuja when he received a delegation of the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI).
“I want to say categorically and emphatically that there is no iota of truth in this.
“Governors are not meeting in Abuja because there is no need for it. There is no plan to send an emissary to London to see the President.
“Again, I want to say that the president is hale and hearty in London where he is observing his 10-day vacation.
“Let us all shun the negative reports insinuating the president illness and death.
“We implore those behind this outright falsehood to desist.
The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in any hospital in London.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said this on Thursday while featuring in a CNBC Africa interview program.
The presidential spokesman stressed that Buhari is neither ill nor on admission in any hospital in the United Kingdom.
He made the clarification on the heels of the speculation that President Buhari was being treated in a London hospital.
Adesina stated: “The president is in London on vacation. He is not in any hospital and he is not ill.
The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in any hospital in London.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said this on Thursday while featuring in a CNBC Africa interview program.
The presidential spokesman stressed that Buhari is neither ill nor on admission in any hospital in the United Kingdom.
He made the clarification on the heels of the speculation that President Buhari was being treated in a London hospital.
Adesina stated: “The president is in London on vacation. He is not in any hospital and he is not ill.
“When he was traveling last week, the statement we put out was that he was going on vacation and during the vacation, he would do routine medical check-up and nothing has changed from what we pushed out last week.
“If anybody has fed something else into the rumor mill that is just what it is- rumor.”
The presidential aide said Buhari would decide whether or not he wishes to talk to Nigerians from London.
“The fact that he is a president, he still has his rights, compelling him to come out and talk will be infringing on his rights.
“The president will talk if he wishes to if he doesn’t wish to, nobody will compel him to talk.
“The truth is that the president is on vacation and he has given a date on which he will return to work,” he said.
-By Anthony Ogbonna I Vanguard
