As President Muhammadu Buhari Mark’s 78th birthday in Daura,
Katsina on Friday, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina,
has addressed claims that the former Head of State died during a medical
vacation in London in 2017.
The rumour of Buhari being dead and cloned has lingered for
years in the country, with many people believing that the man in Aso Villa is
not Muhammadu Buhari but Jubril from Sudan.
But in a lengthy article he made available on
Thursday, Adesina told some stories to make Nigerians believe that the claims
were false.
“This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had
died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in
Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals,”
Adesina began.
“Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally
returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of
Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage.
“I had attended the church service, decked unusually in
complete Agbada, with a cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the
airport to join the reception party.
“We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the
President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he
got to me, he took my hand and said: ‘Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you
dressed.’
“We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras
captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and
the President, that we laughed so uproariously.
“Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would
he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?”
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