The Presidency has reacted swiftly with a rebuttal to media reports earlier today (Saturday), that President Muhammadu Buhari is ill and is being treated at the presidential villa, saying the he (Buhari) is “hale and hearty”.
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The report inferred that the President’s illness is behind the recent cancellation of official events, with the latest being the flag-off of the Niger Delta Clean-up exercise.
But Dasuki says Mr Jonathan had told him the money should be used to bribe party officials to help him win his party’s presidential nomination.
With this, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo would step in as the Acting President within the period of the President’s absence.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said while the rescue and safe return of the remaining 218 Chibok schoolgirls remains a top priority of his administration, he will not allow himself fall for the antics of fraudsters who have been asking for money to negotiate the release the girls.
Sources say the infection, which Buhari reportedly got about two weeks ago, is the reason for the cancellations.
Emerging from the President’s office, Okoh spoke about Buhari’s performance in the last one year, stating that he believed the President would do better in the coming year.
Mr. Buhari, who clocked 73 last December, was said to have confirmed it to some dignitaries who visited him in the past days, explaining to some of them that that was why he was unable to visit Lagos and Rivers as scheduled.
The condition is said to cause pains and hearing impairment.
The Presidency had attributed the development to what it called “scheduling difficulties”. The president is as fit as a fiddle.
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Current trials include that of retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, national security advisor to former president Goodluck Jonathan.
