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Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by myproperty(m): 8:04am On Feb 23, 2015
It was announce that RTD. GEN. Buhari was in London as a guest speaker in Chatham house, then came GOV. Fayose saying he went for medical checkup and now Buhari's wife giving another reason. Who is right among them.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/buhari-uk-rest-says-wife
“He’s just come here to rest. He’s just here to have a rest, at least a few days rest before he goes back to business.” Those were the words of Hajia Aishat, the wife of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, in which she denied insinuations that her husband is in the United Kingdom to attend to a grave illness.

There was widespread controversy at the weekend that the UK trip of Gen. Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was on health grounds although his campaign organization said it was for political business.

The health of 72-year-old Gen. Buhari has been an issue in the country’s presidential campaign, with a group expressing fears that he may be unable to perform optimally if he emerges president. Buhari has, however, consistently pooh-poohed the claim that he is physically unfit.

A photograph of Buhari, said to have been taken with former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as well as Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun and Senator Bukola Saraki, purportedly to confirm the claim that he was in the UK for political business, stirred further controversy.

While the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, argued that the photograph was a trick and a lie, others doubted its authenticity on the ground that Amosun was on a campaign train in Sagamu, Ogun State, on the day he was said to have taken the picture with the team. Blair was also said to have been somewhere else in Europe, not the UK, that day.

In an interview with the Daily Times, the spokesman of the Buhari campaign organization, Alhaji Garba Shehu, asked the doubters to also fault the fact that the presidential candidate was received by a prominent Ogun State monarch, and granted a television interview.

However, Fayose insisted at the weekend that information about the APC presidential candidate is being hidden from Nigerians. The Ekiti Governor specifically challenged Buhari to swear by the Holy Quran that he (Buhari) did not visit a UK hospital on arrival in London last week.

Buhari’s wife debunked rumours that Buhari is gravely sick and undergoing medical treatment in London. Mrs Buhari allayed the fears of Nigerians and APC supporters after emerging from a two-hour interactive drinks reception she and the wife of her husband’s running-mate, Mrs Osinbajo, held for Nigerians in the diaspora on Saturday night at the Westminster Plaza Hotel, in Waterloo.

“He’s home, well and sound,” Hajia Buhari said, as she fielded media questions after emerging from the oversubscribed interactive session. When asked if her husband was in hospital, she smiled warmly and turning to the reporter, said, “I’m hearing it for the first time.” Gen. Buhari, meanwhile, was said to have attended Friday prayers at a Mosque near Baker Street.

“He attended prayers on Friday, he was seen around the mosque near Baker street,” the source revealed, before Hajia Buhari’s disclosure . When pressed further on if her husband was in London for a medical check-up, Hajia Buhari smiled and said: “No, he’s just come here to rest. He’s just here to have a rest. At least a few days rest before he goes back to business.”

Buhari is expected to deliver a speech at the Chatham House on Thursday this week. “He’s speaking at Chatham House on Thursday, they will soon put it up on their website,” a member of the UK chapter of the APC disclosed to the Daily Times during Saturday’s event.

The source also revealed that the Party’s Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, is due in London on Monday (today), and that Buhari’s running-mate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will be guest speaker at another event holding at the House of Commons next week Thursday, March 5. On her part, the wife of the Ogun State Governor, Mrs Olufunso Amosun, during Saturday’s event, warned Nigerians against setting their expectations too high if the APC wins the March 28 presidential elections.

Accusing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of “leaving a legacy of unemployment,” she said to the attendees: “General Buhari is not a magician, “ adding: “He will not find you a job if you do not go out there and help yourself.”

Mrs Amosun told “armchair critics” that to build Nigeria goes beyond sitting at a remote location and criticising on the social media. “We need to improve our literacy levels in order to tackle mortality rates and boost education, among others,” she said, adding: “It is beyond writing on social media,” to do this.

But the event was marred by the number of angry Nigerians who had thronged the venue to hear what the duo of Mrs Buhari and Mrs Osinbajo had to say. Reacting to claims by some people that Buhari’s photograph with Blair, Saraki and Amosun was fake, Alhaji Garba asked: “Are they saying everyone is a liar, including Awujale who received GMB at home in London and the TV station that aired his studio interview?”

But the Ekiti State Governor, who issued a statement last week saying that Buhari was admitted at a hospital located at Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, W2 London West End, London, challenged the APC presidential candidate to swear by the Holy Quran if he (Buhari) did not visit a UK hospital last week. Fayose said that the hope of Buhari’s party to seize power in Nigeria, using Buhari will be dashed at the end. He said: “Buhari will never be Nigeria’s president again.”

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said: “I wish they can see spiritually what I am talking about that Buhari, despite the hullabaloo, will never be president. I predicted my return as Ekiti State Governor and I am saying it again that Buhari will never rule Nigeria again.

“After President Goodluck Jonathan, there will be a young element in his late 50s from the North that will be Nigeria’s president. I want to liken this revelation to the story of Elijah and Elisha. I am the Elijah while my followers are Elisha.”

While maintaining that he was not wishing Buhari dead, Fayose said: “I owe it a duty to Nigeria and its people to expose the antics of the APC cabal whose only interest is to seize power to further their selfish interests.

“Without doubt, it is obvious that these cabal in the APC are trying so hard to deceive Nigerians on Buhari’s health status. That’s the reason they have been using photoshopped pictures to defend their lies on Buhari’s UK trip.

“First, they used a March 5, 2013 picture, claiming that Buhari was taking a walk in London on Thursday. Later they came up with another poorly cropped picture of Buhari with former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

“The same people who lied in September 2012 that they received a gold card invitation to attend the Democratic National Convention in the United States of America are behind the robing of Buhari in the garment of lies and I challenge Buhari to swear by the Holy Quran that he did not visit hospital in the United Kingdom last week.

“However, I want to disappoint this selfish cabal. Buhari is only raising their hope and that hope will be dashed.”

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/buhari-uk-rest-says-wife
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by myproperty(m): 8:11am On Feb 23, 2015
The spokeman of Buhari campaign organization, Alhaji Garba asked: “Are they saying everyone is a liar? what did he mean by that statement? Does it mean they had liars or they lied?
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by ellechrystal(f): 8:12am On Feb 23, 2015
Shuoo, Mrs Buhari, so u mean he hasn't entered Aso Rock like he wants to n he is going to rest first, it's not an easy task na, no b resting game b this o.
meanwhile he hasn't finished with his campaigns? Hahahahahahahaha I laugh is efik.
I will just sit and watch d drama unfold.
Something is not quit clear..

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Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by Bifwoli: 8:14am On Feb 23, 2015
There's no smoke without fire,no secretive trips without some hidden agenda.

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Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by Nobody: 8:24am On Feb 23, 2015
I hate Fayose with passion. He is a thorn in the flesh of the APC.

Don't worry sha. After Buhari become president, u go hear weeh
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by oshyno(m): 8:25am On Feb 23, 2015
Using a lie to cover another lie. I just hope APC pulls off inserting GMB name among the speakers on Chattam House. Else Fayose wud finish them.

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Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by bonechamberlain(m): 8:26am On Feb 23, 2015
there must be some truth in fayose's revelation.. nigeria is finished presenting a 72 year old man as presidential candidate in this modern day

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Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by Goodyshoes(m): 8:31am On Feb 23, 2015
Smh for political propaganda.
Just in case.
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by aminashy: 8:35am On Feb 23, 2015
Dead man walking.
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by GoldCircle: 8:44am On Feb 23, 2015
Dem no dey rest for Nigeria?
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by Sleekydee(m): 8:46am On Feb 23, 2015
No smoke without fire...I second that....there must be an element of truth in all this sickness propaganda... #StillWatchingWithMyLG55"LEDTV.
Re: Controversy Over Buhari's Mission In UK. by OrigamiIII: 9:23am On Feb 23, 2015
All of fayose's comnents and propaganda should be ignored by any sane and patriotic nigerian. He knows the implication of PDP loosing the presidency. He would simply and automatically be bundled into jail. Currently he is stealing ekiti blind. Ekiti is one of the poorest state in the country, the little federal allocation being received, fayose is busy spending it on political propaganda against the others. He is spending money he won't be able to account for should GMB wins the presidency. Mind you fayose would not even mind employing physical and spiritual means to eliminate GMB before the elections.
GEJ surprisingly haven't realised the reasons for the drop in his popularity in the SW. He appoints rascals and thugs from the region to be his mouthpiece while he keeps quiet. Its like appointing known militants like asari and co to be his political mouthpiece and party aspirants in the nigerdelta. Educated and enlightened people would leave such party in droves. The earlier GEJ realises this the better.
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