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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?”


http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-denies-health-concerns-foreign-trip/

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.

SeverusSnape:
Of course, what do you expect??

That he should confirm the news

theV0ice:
What news? the news of the 'medical trip abroad' or that of illness?

SeverusSnape:
both

theV0ice:
Why do they hate this man so much??

Is it a crime for a man to be upright in this country??

So GMB DID NOT even leave the shores of Nigeria yet some people said he traveled for check up??

all thiz sickness reports you PDP are sharing......thereiz god uuuoooo...remember thereiz god in everything we are doing o

Weldone GMB. Those who wish you death will surely die before you. The same thing happened to the great Zik and the death screamers died before him.

Na so e go happen this time too

ayox2003:
Immediately I saw the news on NL, I called Prof and he said the General is hale and hearty here in Nigeria.

Vanguard is an archetypal bucket shop junkyard loud mouth newspaper.

The most irrelevant newspaper on the street that has made the internet its toilet.


Frawzey

Gbawe:
I wonder OOOOOhh !!!!!! The PDP has failed to correctly read a very basic aspect of human behaviour which may have helped the Party to reach Nigerians better. When you wrong or disappoint people who risked a lot to place their faith and lives in your hand then you must humbly show regret and contrition, backed with a sincere will to make amends, if you are to ever win the approval or trust of those people.

The PDP has let Nigerians down badly. Instead of the leaders of the Party to show humility and a readiness to accept what they did wrong and show they see what must be corrected, the very evil and unrepentant PDP has exclusively focused on arrogantly attacking GMB and running a campaign of calumny and character assassination of a candidate (GMB) and his Party (APC) that has zilch to do with the serious problems Nigeria is facing today. If it is not a silly certificate distraction that disgraces Nigeria universally, given that Buhari is a decorated soldier that has contested the Presidential election thrice, they are lying wickedly that Buhari is unwell. Disgusting. This is behavioral human psychology 101 and I am shocked the PDP does not have leaders bright enough to fathom this concept and how much it can hurt the chances of the Party at the polls !!!

The arrogant and unrepentant PDP has now killed itself by not recognising that even the most prodigal of sons can be forgiven if he shows genuine remorse for his actions. What has turned Nigerians off is how a Party that has caused so much deaths, poverty and pain remains so arrogantly disinterested in respecting the people. PDP leaders, because looting our treasury is all they are after, still do not understand that they must deploy an approach centred around placating the ordinary men and women they failed. The approach of making Buhari appear unelectable has backfired horribly . More Nigerians now feel the arrogant PDP is an evil, callous and unrepentant Party with nothing to offer. Buhari has profited massively from this wicked and evil approach of a ruling Party that has failed the people and has no business showing nothing other than complete humility before the Nigerian people.

Maxymilliano:
The former presidential spokesman said some Nigerian hospitals lacked the facilities and expertise needed for the ex-president's treatment

July 15, 2025

https://www.channelstv.com/2025/07/15/buhari-could-have-been-long-dead-if-he-had-used-nigerian-hospitals-adesina/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLjCg9jbGNrAuMKDmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEejhSVPZp8g9VMIrFh8Xffmu9z-fGJLrA-SGoxN9tUQOuFwExH_5DGH7ixM4A_aem_MTR_EApw9dQZan_eVU1KHw

But Femi Adesina, spokesman of the president, was quick to dismiss the rumour, describing it as a new twist on the part of mischief makers.