Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A Nigerian state governor and a critic of President Muhammadu
Buhari has claimed the ailing leader had been placed on life support.
Mr
Ayo Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State in the South West, faulted the
assurances of the government and asserted that the Nigerian leader would
need a miracle to survive the ailment.
“Available and
verifiable facts from London and within the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), confirmed that the president’s health status has
worsened and could only be revived through a miracle from God," Mr
Fayose said on Wednesday.
He claimed that President Buhari was at the West-End London hospital and has been on life support since June 6.
Brain damage
The
Federal Government last Sunday released a voice message of President
Buhari to Nigerians and Muslims as they celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr.
The voice message, in Hausa language, was broadcast by the BBC Hausa service.
The message was meant to clear insinuations that President Buhari had speech impairment and brain damage.
Dignified silence
But
Mr Fayose criticised the Federal Government and described President
Buhari’s handlers as a “cabal” who would not allow him to resign to
prevent the country from an avoidable crisis.
The Ekiti
State Governor said the president had spent 53 days in London to attend
to his health challenges, yet there had been no official information on
his whereabouts.
“Like every other Nigerian, I do not
wish the president dead, I have therefore maintained dignified silence
since we were told that the president embarked on his second medical
trip abroad this year.
“However, the recorded audio
message which was released as the president’s Ramadhan message to
Nigerians, necessitated my setting the records straight today, ‘’ said
Mr Fayose.
Allowed access
The governor doubted the audio message and said it was a "damage-control strategy aimed at further deceiving Nigerians.
“The
audio message does not represent the truth as our president does not
only have voice impairment, he has been on life support since June 6,
2017 at a West-End, London Hospital."
The Governor
claimed that the First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, was not allowed to see
her husband during her last visit to the UK, but was not courageous
enough to admit it.
"Only three Nigerians who are part of the president’s cabal are allowed access to Buhari. I will keep their identities for now."
The Federal Government was yet to respond to Governor Fayose's claims.
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