The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari's health status is not as terrible as speculated.
The
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi
Adesina, stated this early this morning while featuring on the Daily
Sunrise programme of Channels Television, monitored by our
correspondent.
President Buhari is currently on an extended
vacation in the United Kingdom to complete and receive the results of
series of tests recommended by his doctors.
Asked to explain Buhari's current health status, Adesina responded: "The current health status of the president is that it is not as terrible as people make it to seem. In his own communication, he (the president) says no cause for worry."
On
when exactly Buhari would return to Nigeria, the presidential spokesman
said: "He communicated the National Assembly and that letter of
communication is in the public domain. He said I will be away till my
doctors rule out certain things."
Adesina maintained that the Tuesday's statement that Buhari needed more rest was misinterpreted by the media.
He
said statement was in past tense, talking about Buhari's health
condition as of the time he was leaving Nigeria on January 19.
Asked
again to disclose when the president would come back, he responded:
"Well, we do not know when he will be back, but when he is coming, he
will communicate."
Adesina said he did not need to talk
directly to Buhari on the telephone before he could authenticate the
transmissions from the president.
According to him, President Buhari is an honest man "who does not want anything to be coloured on his behalf."
"It
is a matter of my personal decision and style (that I don't talk
directly to the president). All those I spoke with, his personal
physician, his CD (chief detail), his domestic aide, I can tell them to
take the phone to Mr President that I want to speak to him. I know Mr
President, he will speak with me. But I've decided not to talk to him
because I do not need that telephone conversation to authenticate the
health of Mr President.
"There is enough authentication, there is
one from the acting president, there is one from the Senate president
and there is from the speaker of the House of Representatives and many
others. So, I do not need to authenticate the status of the health of Mr
President by speaking to him."
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