The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari has
denied media reports that he was terminally ill and
was preparing to go abroad for medical attention.
Buhari spoke to reporters at the Rivers State
Governors’ Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Sunday. Some Nigerian newspapers and on-line
publications (The Punch not inclusive), in their
Sunday editions; reported that the former military
ruler was terminally ill and has been flown out of
the country for medical attention. He said the
reports were orchestrated by desperate individuals seeking to use it to gain undue political
advantage. The APC candidate also used the
occasion to debunk allegations that his tenure at
the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund was riddled with
corruption. According to him, his tenure at the PTF
was thoroughly investigated and the report presented to the then President Olusegun
Obasanjo who recently confirmed it. Buhari said,
“(a national daily) reported that I was to jet out for
medical checkup yesterday but here I am. I was at
Nasarawa and Benue states yesterday; tomorrow I
am going to be in two states. “The day after tomorrow, in two more states. I am doing two
states per day. How they got the impression that I
was sick I do not know. Although I got cold and
that did not stop me from going through my
schedule.” Commenting on medical documents
purportedly confirming his alleged poor state of health, Buhari said, “I don’t know of this
desperation. “The issue we are telling Nigerians is
that of corruption in this country for the last16
years the PDP has literally destroyed this country.
“This is the issue and what has my health got to do
with that one, have I been sick on daily basis? And (that) document has been put on paper, on
tweeter that I am sick and the ABU (Ahmadu Bello
University Teaching Hospital) said they are forged
documents. This desperation is beyond my
understanding.” When pressed to make a categorical statement on
his state of health, Buhari jokingly asked the
reporter, “how old are you, 50 years?; I am telling
you if go to the field, you would not last the time I
will last in the field.” On his stewardship of the PTF,
he said, “That one has been cleared. There is no fraud in PTF, there was an investigation and
General Obasanjo has answered that question, he
confirmed that there was an investigation and the
report was brought to him and there was nothing
on ground as far as my management and
chairmanship of the PTF was concerned. “So what else can I say? The person who did the
investigation because he was the Head of State he
cleared me so what else can I say?”www.punchng.com/news/buhari-denies-health-concerns-foreign-trip/

Everybody knows u are as fit as a fiddle.