Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the president on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday faulted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that President the man in Aso rock is not Muhammadu Buhari but a certain Jubril from Sudan.
Mazi Kanu had overtime argued that President Buhari has been dead since 2017, saying the man in Aso Rock is only a clone and tried to prove his point with pictorial and video evidence.
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However, Adesina in a reaction condemned the claims hypothetical submission by Kanu, while describing it as Idiocy that is sadly believed by some intellectuals.
Adesina in an article titled: ‘Buhari at 78: If only we knew this president’, stated that the President is well and recounted moments he shared with Buhari to prove he is still the man in Aso Rock.
His words: “This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals.
“Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage. I had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.
“We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.
“Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?
“Another story. The journalist Lindsay Barret had been a long time friend of the President. One day, he sent me to give his greetings. When I did, the President said: “Lindsay Barret. I remember meeting him at the war front in 1968. He was covering the war. There was a day he was almost killed in an ambush, and he then described himself as a ‘devout coward,’ who was lucky to be alive.”
“Jubril of Sudan? And he remembers Barret, whom he met at the warfront in 1968? Tell it to the marines.”
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