Nobody wants Buhari dead but... — Adebanjo

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a chieftain of Afenifere said the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed and the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, were not being sincere in their communication of President Muhammdu Buhari’s health status.

In an interview with The Punch, he said using the phrase “hale and hearty” for the president who travelled to the UK on a 10-day leave and later asked for an extension, shows that something is not right. 

Adebanjo said nobody wants Buhari dead but his aides were not telling Nigerians the truth, saying they were taking the people for a ride and talking balderdash.

According to him, falling sick is natural so he wondered why they were finding it hard to tell the people what is wrong with the president instead of raising hope that there is nothing wrong and yet the president cannot resume.

He said: “From their evidence, both Lai Mohammed and the Femi Adesina are talking nonsense. One said the President is sick. Mohammed said he is hale and hearty. Yet when the time came for him to resume, he didn’t.