SAN FRANCISCO, March 06, (THEWILL) – Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has offered to assist the presidency convince Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari is well, stressing that his credibility is one that would make Nigerians believe that Buhari is doing okay if he tells them so.
While giving out his telephone number for Buhari to use in proving that he is hale and hearty, Fayose declared; “let the president speak with me. If I tell Nigerians that the president spoke with me, Nigerians will believe”.
The presidency has continued to release a list of persons Buhari had telephone conversation with since he departed the country for a medical vacation in the UK on January 19.
Among them are foreign leaders like President Donald Trump of United States; King Mohammed VI of Morocco; and Guinean president and chairman of the African Union, AU, Alpha Conde.
In Nigeria, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina; minister of information; Lai Mohammed and governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje; are some of those who have spoken with Buhari on telephone.
Only yesterday, Adesina released a statement disclosing that the President spoke with former President Olusegun Obasanjo to felicitate with him on his 80th birthday. Buhari was also said to have spoken with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state, assuring that all is well with him (the vacationing president).
The decision by the Presidency to make the conversations public is seen as a move to dispel rumours that Buhari is critically ill.
But the Ekiti Governor, in a statement issued on his behalf by his chief press secretary, Idowu Adelusi, taunted the presidency thus: “If their problem is that they are looking for a credible person who can help them convince Nigerians that all is well with our president, I’m their best bet”.
The statement reads further, “Since they are eager for the president to speak to people; believing in this way to convince Nigerians that their president is hale and hearty, let president Buhari talk to me. I can be reached on 08035024994. I am credible and Nigerians will believe me.
“They said he spoke to President Donald Trump; despite the hype, Nigerians were skeptical. Then they said he spoke to the king of Morocco; again, Nigerians were suspicious. Before we recovered from that, it is now the AU president that they said President Buhari spoke to.
“A president that can speak with outsiders should be able to whisper or wave to his own people. The people gave him the very important platform of President on which he stands today and, therefore, Presidential aides should stop giving the unhelpful impression that Buhari has no respect for the Nigerian electorate.”
