Hajia Aishat, wife of the All
Progressive Congress (APC) Pesidential Candidate, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), has denied allegations that her husband is in
the United Kingdom for a medical treatment.
“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,” Hajia Obasanjo said during an event on Saturday
night in UK.
There was widespread controversy at the weekend that the UK trip of
Buhari was on health grounds although his campaign organization said it
was for political business.
According to Daily Times, 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.”
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 photoshop trick, 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.
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 is however 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 during Saturday’s event.
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