I Don’t Know What Is Wrong With President Buhari – Femi adesina

THE key takeaway from an interview Sunday evening by the Special Adviser to the Nigerian President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Channels Television is that even he does not know what exactly is wrong with President Muhammadu Buhari and he also doesn’t know when the president will return to Nigeria....


“The President is the one who can release his own health status. The day he left, we still spoke.

He didn’t tell me ‘this is my condition’. He told me he was going to rest and he would do medicals and that was included in the statement we released,” Adesina said in a phone interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. 

Asked about when Buhari is expected back in the country, Adesina said “if there was a date he would return, it would have been in that statement.”



The statement he was referring to was the one he released on Sunday informing Nigerians that Buhari would no longer be returning to the country today as planned due to some medical tests he needs to perform. He offered no date in the statement for the president’s return.

In the interview, Adesina said Nigerians do not need to know what Pres. Buhari is treating. He asked Nigerians to just pray for the President rather than allowing the latest news sway them into believing recent rumours that he had died.

The president’s spox was told that even those who want to pray for the president will be unable to offer specific prayers, but he countered by saying Nigerians can pray for him without knowing the actual health condition.

“I am sure it will get to a point when the President has to disclose the status of his health if it needs to be disclosed. If it’s something serious enough to disclose, I am sure he will disclose it,” he said.

He however stated that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is acting as president at the moment and so “there is no vacuum in government. No lacuna because power has been transferred to the Vice President who is acting president.



“So, Mr President can take the time he desires and when his doctors give him a clean bill of health, he then can return home.”