₦airaland Forum

John Alechenu

With the dust yet to settle over an interview Aisha Buhari granted the British Broadcasting Corporation, a Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has stated that the President’s recent trip to Germany was for medical reasons.

Mohammed, a Russian-trained medical doctor, revealed this in an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday.

Mrs. Buhari had accused an unnamed cabal, made up of individuals who were not part of the struggle for Buhari’s emergence as president, of having hijacked the Presidency.

Expressing her frustration, Mrs. Buhari threatened not to support any attempt by her husband to re-contest in 2019 if things do not change.

Mohammed alleged that the president’s handlers were making similar mistakes committed by those who served as close advisers to ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua.

According to him, Buhari was in Germany to receive treatment for an undisclosed ailment but his handlers arranged a state visit in an attempt to mask the truth.

Mohammed said, “The reason the president travelled to Germany was not what it was advertised to be. The trip is basically a medical trip. It was undertaken for medical reasons. It was only converted to a state visit as an afterthought and that tells you the level of contempt the handlers of the president have for Nigerians. We blamed the handlers of Yar’Adua for the way they kept his ailment secret.

“Now, Nigerians have a big surprise awaiting them. They have not been told the truth about the real state of the man’s (Buhari) health. He is our president.

Nigerians elected him into office and we must never allow individuals to play with our intelligence and do something stupid and dangerous to our country. I hope and pray that next time, the Nigerian people would be told the truth. It’s a medical trip; they (handlers) issued statements to camouflage the real reason behind the trip.”

The former lawmaker stated that those behind the cover-up did not love the president more than Nigerians who voted him into office.
Mohammed also accused those criticising Mrs. Buhari of hypocrisy.

He pointed out that although most of the people would not like to admit it, a good number of them including members of the All Progressives Congress who have been denied access to Buhari, had taken their case to her as a last resort.

“The president’s wife as far as I am concerned, did not speak out for any personal gain. She has her husband’s best interest at heart. I have no doubt she is in touch with ordinary Nigerians and enjoys the confidence of many and she chose to speak for them. Although she exercised a lot of restraint by refusing to name names, we all know that Mamman Daura does not have a voter card,” he said.

modath:
Na wah for di awa obodo naija pipo!! When exactly did he have the time to hole up in a medical facility to treat the "undisclosed ailment",

Buhari need to be more ptoactive on his job, so all these tales by moonlight will stop titillating the uninformed...

When something/someone is doing well, distractions will not matter much... It's Buhari's call to make, he has to be loud,clear and message will be well received..

Babacele:
the President's media folks and assistants ain't doing well and we have been complaining about that for many months.
Just imagine if the president had said " Mrs Buhari has ,like every citizen of our great nation Nigeria , the right to air their displeasure in a democracy. We shall look into her petitions ,and this should tell you my country men that despite being my wife , Mrs Buhari does not influence my decisions but a careful and delicate process does. Of course her worries which my busy schedules have not given me time to scrutinize is to blame for this. Let me assure all our supporters and Nigerians that they shall not be disappointed in our efforts at making Nigeria a great nation" or any other stuffs that the world can be comfortable with. But the cabal, who had plagiarized Obamas speech , probably influenced that embarrassing response in Germany. These incompetence that aid the Junaids of this world is what we want PMB to deal with asap or of what use is the cabal?

modath:
Na wah for di awa obodo naija pipo!! When exactly did he have the time to hole up in a medical facility to treat the "undisclosed ailment",

Buhari need to be more ptoactive on his job, so all these tales by moonlight will stop titillating the uninformed...

When something/someone is doing well, distractions will not matter much... It's Buhari's call to make, he has to be loud,clear and message will be well received..

razortruth:
Every hidden things shall be made manifest