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I find the recent events surrounding president Buhari's health trip and return very disturbing. In 2016, the least one can expect from any government is a bit of transparency. It doesn't help a country when the health status of its President is shrouded in so much secrecy, not just for political reasons but for the day to day running of the country.

The so called arrival of the president yesterday seems to have thrown more confusion in the whole mix. After over 10 days in the UK, the President was sneeked into the country on Sunday and what has followed is the exact same propaganda we witnessed during the Yaradua days.

First, fake pictures where released for his arrival. Even the story of his arrival here on Nairaland had an old picture. Obviously, journalists were not allowed to cover the arrival, something that is totally unusual for a loud President who once organised Scottish dressed pipers to welcome him home.

No videos have been made available either. Instead, we wake up this morning to headlines like, "I am fit and can wrestle with anyone". Seriously? This was exactly the kind of headlines we were bombarded with during the Yaradua days. I remember the infamous " I can even play squash with anyone" comment Yaradua was claimed to have made. Then we heard he was jogging up and down the stairs in Aso Rock.

All this can be solved by a very simple move. Get the guy to appear in public! He is President. He is supposed to be going around performing presidential functions. If you claim he is so fit, why keep him inside Aso Rock like a prisoner? It doesn't make sense. Just get him out there to conduct his normal duties and there won't be any speculations or doubts. But keeping him inside Aso Rock and coming out with all kinds of press releases only means one thing: the man is not fine and is certainly not fit. It isn't rocket science!

The very first doubts was even when people started "trooping" to go see him in London. Why would party leaders be going to see a President in London who was supposed to be on a vacation? I hope we are not back to the same old trenches. It is a simple case. If the President is fit and great, let him go about his normal duties and there won't be need for all the press statements or photo ops. It would become visible to the blind and audible to the deaf!

Op, I agree with you.

Weed is bad. Inspiration wrongly applied.

Really ??

My thoughts exactly immediately I saw that wrestler headline, I immediately remembered Yaradua and his squash challenge

idupaul:
My thoughts exactly immediately I saw that wrestler headline, I immediately remembered Yaradua and his squash challenge

When they chose to come out with headlines like those while the man is kept indoors, you don't need a rocket scientist to tell you something is wrong. If the man is sick, just say so. The country is stalled and will not make significant progress under this kind of cloud. There are many key policies that require presidential accent. If the state of the president is in doubt then we have a cabal ruling us already. That was how a cabal ruled for over six months during the Yaradua days while the president was "jogging" around Aso Villa!

Like the certificate, like the health status! All you need to sort it out is just show up!

Time shall soon tell us d truth

I just can't deal with this country and their deceitful ways! Where is the transparency and accountability? Yet some demons will come out and say he has the right to choose not to appear in any public function. How does that happen?

Now they are beginning to tinker with the constitution especially as regards the status of the VP in the event of a vacancy in the office of the President.

freeze001:
Now they are beginning to tinker with the constitution especially as regards the status of the VP in the event of a vacancy in the office of the President.

^ Do you have more info about this?

freeze001:
I just can't deal with this country and their deceitful ways! Where is the transparency and accountability? Yet some demons will come out and say he has the right to choose not to appear in any public function. How does that happen?

Now they are beginning to tinker with the constitution especially as regards the status of the VP in the event of a vacancy in the office of the President.

The President of a country is a public figure and a property of the state. He cannot chose or not chose to perform his duties. He is compelled by law to perform them. That is why the constitution has a clause on "incapacitation". If he is no longer able to perform state functions, then he is incapacitated and the VP will have to step in. The problem is, our sectional and regional bias has reduced governance to this kind of circus.

quid:
^ Do you have more info about this?

It is one of the ongoing constitutional amendments now. I will get a link shortly. Hold on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRhlt-aqs8 this is a video of his arrival, many people including myself posted photos which I can attest to their authenticity. All the major news stations carried the news of his return, so to be honest I don't get your point in starting this thread. The president is alive and well, deal with it!

Sadeik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRhlt-aqs8 this is a video of his arrival, many people including myself posted photos which I can attest to their authenticity. All the major news stations carried the news of his return, so to be honest I don't get your point in starting this thread. The president is alive and well, deal with it!

That is not a video of his arrival on Sunday. That is an old video. The pictures of his arrival are all conflicting. Even his media aides and APC Nigeria posted different pictures. Don't you people ever get that people are fully aware of these things? Hope you realise this is not the first time he has gone for medical trip?

I don't have anything against him going for a medical trip. But government should be transparent else the nation will suffer

snailspeed:
That is not a video of his arrival on Sunday. That is an old video. The pictures of his arrival are all conflicting. Even his media aides and APC Nigeria posted different pictures. Don't you people ever get that people are fully aware of these things? Hope you realise this is not the first time he has gone for medical trip?

I don't have anything against him going for a medical trip. But government should be transparent else the nation will suffer

Are you kidding me? Ask anyone that watched any tv station in Nigeria yesterday. THIS IS THE ACTUAL VIDEO OF HIM ARRIVING. And so what if this is not his first medical trip, the last time I checked it is not a crime to get sick. The President is alive, well and in charge, deal with it!

they couldn't even allow us hear his voice more or less see him. APC lying agents in social media started with pictures of buhari in white on his arrival while radio stations were reporting he came in khaki coloured caftan.



u hear them he told a journalist he can challenge and defeat him in a contest as he is taller than him. now instead of broadcasting buhari's voice were he told the journalist he is fit and agile to perform, u will hear them play a record from a journalist saying " u can see the president ......." then followed by adesina blabbing. one wonders if they don't want us to hear buhari saying it himself that he is fit and agile and can even defeat the journalist in a fight.





anyone sure that buhari is alive should present a footage where he said he can challenge and defeat the journalist in a contest cos he is taller than him and strong too.



he granted an audience to the state media house immediately he landed but we can't watch the interview and we can't hear him speak.



hope he shows face shaa cos we don't need yaradua repetition.