President Muhammad Buhari, who left
Nigeria 45 days ago to resume treatment for an undisclosed medical
condition believed to be cancer, has developed speech difficulties,
presidency sources said today.
Previously, Mr. Buhari was also said to
be suffering memory lapses. The latest revelation stems from recent
attempts to return the President to Nigeria by members of a cabal
managing his health and using it to deceive Nigerians.
Several of President Buhari’s aides who
traveled with him are reportedly not in touch with him, reports say,
while others were ordered to return to Nigeria, with nobody having any
certainty about the prospects of Mr. Buhari’s date of return.
During his last trip Saharareporters
revealed that his London doctors rejected the idea of his returning to
work. They asked that he remained in London for four months to see how
best they could treat his illness. Nonetheless, the cabal managing the
president brought him back to enable him to undertake a number of acts
including military postings and appointments that would have been
impossible with an acting President on seat.
At that time, Buhari revealed he had
been very ill and had received blood transfusion, and indicated he would
soon return to the UK for further treatment. During the period he was
in Nigeria, he was rarely seen outside, but managed to attend a few
Federal Executive Council meetings which he left as soon as the photo
opportunities were done with. Two weeks after that return, his condition
deteriorated and doctors had to be flown in from the UK to embark on
treatment, but that phase lasted only for a few weeks.
The president then stopped attending the weekly FEC altogether, but to maintain the ruse that he was healthy, members of the cabal would shepherd him to the mosque on Fridays hoping to generate sentiments within the core Muslim north where a rumor had circulated that the president had been “poisoned”.
Buhari eventually left for the UK
abruptly on the evening of May 7, shortly after meeting with some Chibok
girls who had been released the previous day by Boko Haram. Although
Buhari spoke at the event, his voice was barely audible, as he had lost a
lot of weight, his condition reportedly complicated by Crohn’s Disease.
When the President was leaving for the
airport, he shocked his aides when he asked if they were going to
Sokoto, perhaps one of the first signs of his deteriorating memory.
It has now been learnt that President
Buhari has not spoken to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo by telephone
since his departure. Only last week, the Acting President was asked to
await a phone call from Mr. Buhari but when a call eventually came in,
nothing coherent was heard from Mr. Buhari, despite the cabal having
kept telling people of his “tremendous” improvement.
The cabal is also reportedly behind the
rumors of a possible coup by some military officers a couple of weeks
ago, as well as the recent quit notice by some Northern youths to the
Igbos in that area, which they figured would make western countries view
such an attempt with understanding if they thought the action would
protect Nigeria as an indivisible entity.
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