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By Charles Ogbu
THE BUHARI-TRUMP ALLEGED PHONECALL; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING:
Those asking for a tweet from Donald Trump as proof that the real estate billionaire actually spoke to the ailing Nigerian leader and hoping to use same to ascertain Muhammadu Buhari's health status are dumb. Even a terminally ill patient who has just two days to spend on earth can talk on phone.
Those cloning CNN and BBC link all over the cyberspace as proof that the two leaders actually spoke on phone are even dumber.
Now, don't get upset yet. Take a chill pill. And hear me out first.
Let us even assume for one second that the white house comes out to say the T.V personality turned president, D. Trump actually spoke to Munammadu Buhari on phone, will that be a concrete proof about the status of the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari??
Why should a citizen of a free world rely on an audio call to ascertain whether or not his president is alive?
When did audio recording become concrete proof of life and evidence of one's health status??
If we are not mentally lazy, we would have realised that this scenario actually played out in the Yar'Adua saga.
On Jan 12, 2010, when the late president Umar Musa Yar'Adua was in a vegetative state at a Saudi Arabian hospital, a group of political terrorists known as the Cabal faked his voice and granted a 3 minutes interview to Mansur Liman of the BBC Hausa service where the faked Yar'adua's voice told the BBC that he was recovering and hoped to come back to his duty soon.
Una don forget????
Those Cabals even faked Yar'Adua's signature and got NASS to pass a supplementary budget which they shared among themselves.
Retired General Abdulraman Dambazzou was a leading member of the Cabal then. Today, the same Dambazzou is the interior minister and a member of Buhari's kitchen cabinet.
Do the maths yourself.
If the Cabal could fake Yar'adua's voice then and pass it off to the BBC as the authentic Yar'adua speaking with them, who says anything is not possible with the same Cabal now??
Personally, I believe there is no limit to how far the so called Cabal are willing to go in order to retain power.
Too many times, the presidency has lied about the health status of Muhammadu Buhari. And too many times, they have been caught.
First, they told you your own president, your employee, was on vacation. Later, they told you he just branched to an hospital to do medical check-up. They later turned around and told you he was not even at the hospital. Even a whole pastor Osinbajo joined the lying industry when he looked us in the face and lied to us that the president was "Hale and Hearty" even when the same president would later write (supposedly) to the National Assembly that he would only come back when his doctor certify him fit. The same person who was hale and hearty??? How can a man who is hale and hearty still be waiting for the doctor to certify him fit to go home?
From "he is awaiting his test result" (I wonder the kind of test result that would take a whole month for Oyibo hospital) to "he is hale and hearty" and back to "I will only come back when my doctors certify me okay".
Shouldn't you be asking why the presidential media team is so desperate to prove the president is alive with old badly photoshopped photos which have all been bursted? Can't the presidency simply take a media house to wherever the president is and do a video interview which will be transmitted to Nigerians live so we can put an end to this show of shame?
Between talking to Trump And talking to the people who elected him, which option would a wise president choose?
Surely, you don't need a certain Charles Ogbu to be the one to tell you that we have conscience-less liars at the highest level of our govt. Only a man who was born dumb would believe anything from these morally bankrupt folks without a video evidence.
Muhammadu Buhari is our president. Our employee! Our servant! We pay his salary. We feed him. We even pay for the packing of his shit. We the Nigerian people have a right to know EVERYTHING about his health. Those political leeches and financial terrorists at the presidency who are hiding information about the president's health from us are actually committing a moral treason against the Nigerian people.
Isn't it criminally funny that the same Femi Adesina who admitted he had never spoken with his principal was the same person telling everyone what Buhari and Trump discussed on phone???? Let us even pretend to agree that Buhari actually spoke with Trump, now the question should be, how did Femi Adesina who was yet to speak with Buhari since he left the country know exactly what the ailing leader discussed with the American president???
And haven't you guys noticed that both the CNN and BBC links about the phone call all quoted Femi Adesina as their source?? The same Adesina that has not spoken to Buhari?
Indeed, it is so easy to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Fellow Nigerians, keep your eyes on the ball. Forget any phone call. If Yar'adua could grant interview to the BBC even while incapacitated, Buhari can equally speak with Trump on phone. No big deal.
Even if it later emerge that Buhari was okay and that he did speak with Trump, the people who should hide their faces in shame are those Asorock lying machines and their colleagues at the Utako house of BMC who it would seem, should be lecturing uncle Lucifer in the act of lying. These guys have lied too much. Nigerians are justified to doubt whatever they say unless it is accompanied with a video evidence.
Dear members of Buhari's House Of Lies, stop distracting us with your so called Trump phone call. We want to see the president live!! Even if the call did happen, it didn't prove that the president is in a good enough condition to continue in office. It only proves he yet breathes but then, we need more than a man who is just breathing as president.
Happy Valentine to all people of goodwill. Members of the BMC and Asorock lying machine, una no follow for this my Happy Valentine's wish oooo. Make una go collect una own for the BMC, Utako.
#WhereIsBuhari???
Intersociety Blasts FG for Trump - Buhari Phone Call Hoax, Says its a "Diplomatic Blunder"
- Feb 15 2017
The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, InterSociety, says it is most unlikely that President Donald Trump of the United States, U.S, had a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari who is on a medical vacation in London.
It noted that the statement by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, announcing the phone conversation is “grossly one-sided, circumstantially untenable, diplomatically blundered and grossly un-Trump-like”, stressing that such diplomatic conversations can only take place between two mentally coherent and bodily agile presidents.
Recall that virtually all leading local and foreign news outlets were on Monday evening awash with news of Trump speaking with Buhari and inviting him to Washington at a mutually convenient date.
Trump was quoted, in the telephone call, as encouraging President Buhari to keep up the good work he is doing; commended Buhari for his efforts in rescuing 24 of the Chibok Girls and the strides being taken by the Nigerian military. Both leaders were also quoted as discussed ways to improve cooperation in the fight against terrorism through the provision of necessary equipment.
President Trump was also said to have assured the Nigerian President of the readiness of America to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria concerning military weapons to combat terrorism.
But doubting the credibility of the reported conversation between the two presidents, Intersociety, in a statement by its Board Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi; and Head, Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law Programme, Barr. Obianuju Igboeli, accused the presidency of lying.
It advised Nigerians not to believe Adesina’s statement until the White House authorities and the United States Department of State concur with the content of Adesina’s statement from Washington DC, and confirm all that the Nigerian presidency reported Trump as telling Buhari.
“Of all the trending and unfolding dramas associated with the whereabouts and true health status of President Muhammadu Buhari, the latest is gravely disturbing and diplomatically weighty; capable of causing serious diplomatic rows between Nigeria and the new Donald Trump Administration in Washington; if found to be an extension of trending presidential falsehood,” InterSociety said.
The human rights group believes that the claims “may most likely have been presidentially corrupted and made an extension of trending presidential falsehood in Nigeria and expanded into presidential falsehood across borders.”
It continued, “Such diplomatic conversations can only take place between two mentally coherent and bodily agile Presidents. If the Nigerian President is that bodily agile and mentally coherent, why is he not on seat in Nigeria? Not even the defence of ‘doctors’ advice and results of medical tests’ can keep a hale and hearty President off his presidential seat for three weeks running, if he is truly hale and hearty, to the extent of having such weighty diplomatic conversations with the world No. 1 President at this point in time.
The same new US President said to be calling President Buhari was factually seen globally receiving the Prime Minister of Canada at the White House and at the same time or hour of the purported long diplomatic conversations with President Buhari.
“Common sense and circumstances have also made mockery of the authenticity that would have been attached to such diplomatic conversations.
The aspect of diplomatic calls to President Buhari from President Donald Trump at this point in time, if true, can only be pitiable or sympathetic calls and on health grounds. This is owing to the fact that all is not well with President Muhammadu Buhari wherever he is; leading to his transfer of presidential powers and functions to his Vice President. Since there is a coherent acting President on seat in Nigeria, such weighty diplomatic calls should have been appropriately directed to the acting President.
“Circumstances may most likely not have been ripe for new President Donald Trump to say those things Deacon Femi Adesina credited to him. Most importantly and strikingly, the statements under reference are monolithic in source; having only come from the mouth of Mr. Femi Adesina, who is co-enmeshed in trending presidential falsehood and associated dramas in Nigeria concerning the true whereabouts and health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“In all, we at Intersociety make bold to say that presidential falsehood in Nigeria may most likely have gone beyond borders in the subject matter under advocacy discussion. This is more so when some APC chieftains said to have gone to meet President Muhammadu Buhari in London have just debunked going to meet with him.
“Unless the authorities of the White House and the United States Department of State speak in concurrence and authoritatively from Washington DC; confirming all that Mr. Femi Adesina said President Trump said to President Muhammadu Buhari. Otherwise, we ask all Nigerians to ignore the statements or accept them with a pinch of salt. Not even a concurrence statement from the US Embassy in Nigeria can expressly be convincing and acceptable to all and sundry.
“This is because of the likelihood of the Embassy being contaminated by trending presidential virus or falsehood, or in the name of ‘diplomatic pressures’. Funny enough, the same Mr. Femi Adesina that barely knows where his boss is or visits or joins him wherever he is, has suddenly appeared in the presence of his boss to record what he discussed with President Donald Trump.”
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JUST IN: I Am Dying!!! I Am No Longer Enjoying My Stay In London – Buhari Cries Out
JUST IN: I Am Dying!!! I Am No Longer Enjoying My Stay In London – Buhari Cries Out
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, said he is no longer enjoying his stay in the United Kingdom, UK.
Buhari who spoke through his Media Aide, Garba Shehu, made the statement in an interview with Channels Television, in Abuja .
He said the President was no longer “enjoying his stay’’ outside the country.
“As a matter of fact, we should be getting ready to see the President flesh and blood, and that will be as soon as possible.
“The President (himself) is looking forward to being home, to be with his people.
“I don’t think he is enjoying any longer an extended vacation outside the country,’’ Shehu said.
Commenting on the President’s telephone conversation with the United States, US, President, Donald Trump, the Spokesman said it was “undiplomatic’’ for anyone to demand for the release of the audio recording of the conversation.
According to him, releasing an audio containing the telephone conversation between two Presidents, is highly unethical, and against modern civilisation.
“No, I don’t think so; I don’t think it is permitted in international diplomacy. I think if we had recorded Mr Trump in this conversation, it would have offended our diplomatic relations.
“I think the Americans themselves would not have recorded this conversation of President to President,’’ he said.
On the President’s medical test results being expected from Doctors, Shehu said he had no information on whether the President had collected the results or not.
“No, we have no information on that (test results). If he had received them, he would have been on the plane back home.’’
Shehu added, that there was not enough time for the two Presidents to discuss other continental and international issues.
He however, expressed optimism that the conversation would boost bilateral relations between Nigeria and the U.S.
“Well, there wasn’t enough time to talk about everything. I think the point at what will follow, is in the invitation that President Trump has extended to our President (Buhari) to come over.
“That is the kind of opportunity that was presented to Nigeria, to put all the issues on the desk.
“As for their immigration policy, I think our President has been clear about one thing – the choices made by the Americans as to who to lead them, in this case, Mr Trump, is entirely their own choice.
“We have no business interfering with their domestic affairs.
“As to the countries that have been barred, it has been clearly specified, and Nigeria did not feature on the list,’’ he stressed.
Recall, that Buhari proceeded on a medical vacation, on January 19, and wrote to the Senate, that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, would act in his absence.
His absence which has stretched beyond the initial 10-day request however, has generated speculations about his health condition, in spite of the fact that he wrote the Senate again on February 5, for an extension of the leave period.
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Igbo Presidency 2019: Read What Atiku Said After Meeting with Babangida Yesterday
Igbo Presidency 2019: Read What Atiku Said After Meeting with Babangida
Abubakar has said that the decision on whether it is the turn of the South East to have a shot at the presidency in 2019 lies with Nigerians.
Fielding questions from journalists after a more than two hours closed door meeting with former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida at his uphill residence in Minna on Tuesday, Atiku said such sensitive decision is a collective one.
Asked if the recent position of his former boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the subject would subsists, Atiku said it was for Nigerians to decide.
He said that the restructuring of Nigerians is not up to an individual to decide but for Nigerians to decide, “It is up to Nigerians to decide on the restructuring on Nigeria.”
When asked on his advice to the Federal Government on the state of things in the country, the former vice president said he cannot do so through the pages of newspapers.
Chinagorom Amadi
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