President Muhammadu Buhari is neither ill nor admitted
in any hospital in London as being speculated, his
spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said Thursday.
Mr. Adesina, who is Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity to the president, said this in a live interview
programme on CNBC Africa.
“The president is in London on vacation. He is not in
any hospital and he is not ill.
“When he was travelling 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 put out last week.
“If anybody has fed something else into the rumour mill
that is just what it is – rumour,” he said.
On whether Mr. Buhari would talk to Nigerians while on
vacation, Mr. Adesina said the president had the
fundamental right to talk from anywhere or not.
“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, and
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,’’ the
president’s spokesman maintained.
