Publisher of Ovation, Dele Momodu, International, says President
Muhammadu Buhari is not comfortable disclosing his actual ailment.
Dele Momodu, added that images released by the presidency proved that the
nation’s leader was not yet fit to return to Nigeria to resume the task
of governance.
This is just as Coalition of Urhobo Nation Youth Leaders and Stakeholders (CUNYLS), has asked the presidency to release video recording of President Buhari.
In his latest article published on Saturday, titled ‘President Buhari
and his London vistors’, Dele Momodu lamented that there was a theatre
of the absurd ongoing in the city of London.
He said “the patrons are very important personalities from Nigeria
who have turned the supposed illness of President Buhari into a stage
play.
“At the rate these medical tourists are going, Nigeria may be empty
of all its fat cats as they jostle to pay obeisance lest anyone accuses
them of nonchalance and of plotting against the President or wishing him
dead”.
Dele Momodu recalled that when President Buhari suddenly left
Nigeria, he did what late President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua failed to do
which was to send a simple letter to the National Assembly about his
intention to go on vacation and hand over authority to his Vice
President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
The article reads in parts further: “For God’s sake, it is not a
crime to fall sick. We all do, in various degrees, from time to time. At
over 70 years on the surface of this earth, no one would expect
President Buhari to be in the most perfect state of health.
“It is a miracle that he survived the harrowing vicissitudes of life
after he was thrown into a dungeon in 1985 during the military coup that
toppled his dictatorship. He also had to contest some bloody elections a
record four times before fortune smiled at him. Naturally, all of these
events would have combined to conspire against his health.
“So why should he be ashamed of telling the world that his health is
failing and that he would have to attend to it as frequently as
possible? No one needs to consult a doctor or a prophet to know our
President is not very well at this moment and that he deserves our
understanding and prayers.
“Even if we thought otherwise, his London visitors have virtually
confirmed our worst fears. Aso Rock media gurus who have been regaling
us with tales of how well and fit the President is should have worked
harder on their powerful friends to stay in Nigeria and wait to flood
the airport whenever it pleases God to bring him back in one piece to
Nigeria.
“Rushing to London to mark register is absolutely unnecessary and a
total waste of scarce resources. The London visitors have wittingly or
inadvertently attracted more attention to the President’s frailty.
“I have taken time to study some of the pictures that have emerged
from the President’s shrine in London and most of them did not do
justice to whatever it is some people are trying to cover up by fire by
force.
“The pictures have shown clearly why the President cannot just yank
himself off from London and return home pronto as his tedious job
demands. It is very obvious that the President is no longer in London of
his own free volition, even if he ever was at some point. Someone
should please beg the Good Samaritans to allow the President receive his
medical treatment in peace and hopefully recuperate handsomely and
adequately.
“Only his immediate family should be allowed access to him at this
moment. The visitors actually make it look like they are on an espionage
mission to ascertain the true state of the President’s health in order
to plot, position and manipulate what seems an impending power game,
sooner or later”.