The presidency has again assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari is back on his feet, while insisting that he [Buhari] has been fully mended and only waiting for his London doctor’s order to take a trip back to the country.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina who made the disclosure while featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today, said Mr. President has fully recovered and will be back in Nigeria soon.
“The president I saw was sharp, smart, lucid and looks almost completely mended, he has remarkably changed” He added.
When asked by the TV host, Seun Okinbaloye, if Buhari is fit to travel for six hours back to Nigeria from London, Adesina answered, “he is a man of tremendous energy and if a man was ill and has mended, why not!”
Queried if the President is worried that he can’t be treated in Nigeria, Adesina replied, “He believes you procure treatment wherever you can get it, it is a man who is alive that can continue to lead his family, country, if he’s dead he’s dead. Anybody that needs treatment will go for it anywhere.”
Asked who pays for Buhari’s treatment and the Nigeria’s presidential Eagle aircraft which has been parked in London for over 90 days? He said, “Does it matter, I don’t know who is paying for his treatment, it is most likely Nigerians are the ones paying… As the president, he has a right to be treated by the country. He is still paying, but don’t forget that we are not paying the official rate.
The President’s spokesman, however, noted that he doesn’t know exactly how much the presidency is paying to station the presidential jet in London.
Answering another question about the likelihood of Buhari running in 2019, he said, “Nobody can say President Buhari would run for president in 2019, but he has a right to. Knowing the President as a straight forward person if he wants to he come out to tell Nigerians.”
Also, Adesina talked on the dwindling ratings of the All Progressives Congress, APC, he said ratings can be low today and it can go up another day
He added that things have gone very bad in the country before the Buhari-led government took over, stressing that the President only came to make repairs.
“…All I know is that the government of today is on course and before the mandate terminates in 2019, the repair would have been made”. He added.