President Muhammadu Buhari on
Sunday said those who felt he had died during his medical vacation in the UK in
2017, asked Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to make them his deputy.
Osinbajo took over in acting
capacity when the president was away.
Speaking on Sunday in Krakow,
Poland, during an interactive session with the Nigerian community in the
country, he said his deputy, Buhari said Osinbajo “received a lot of
embarrassment”.
The president said he and
Osinbajo discussed the issue when the acting president at the time visited him
in London.
“One of the questions that came
up today in my meeting with Nigerians in Poland was on the issue of whether
I‘ve been cloned or not,” he said.
“The ignorant rumours are not
surprising. When I was away on medical vacation last year, a lot of people
hoped I was dead.
“Poor Professor Yemi Osinbajo,
even he had to deal with the rumours. Some people reached out to him to
consider them to be his vice-president because they assumed I was dead. That
embarrassed him a lot; we discussed it when he visited me while I was
convalescing.”
Those against the reelection of
Buhari have asked him to step down in 2019 but the president has insisted that
he is fit.
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You suppose to remove them from your government. Why are you still having them with you???
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