SAN FRANCISCO, February 21, (THEWILL) – The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Tuesday disclosed that his principal would let Nigerians know when it is time for him to return from his medical vacation in the United Kingdom.
Asked by State House correspondents to state the exact time the President plans to return to the country, Adesina said, “What we have just said is what I will want us to believe. The President said he needs to rest further. The same President that communicated that to us, when it is time for him to come, he will also communicate to us.”
Adesina, who had earlier issued a statement where he quoted the President as saying that the results of the medical tests he carried out showed that he needed longer time of rest, said Buhari only wanted Nigerians to know that he appreciates their prayers, concerns and goodwill.
According to him, “He (the President) is the one who owns his body and there is nobody who will know his body more than him and he says no cause to worry.
“It makes sense to say that maybe from the results of the tests, further rests had been recommended. The statement did not say how long the rest will last.
“I speak for somebody, I do not speak for myself. So it is what he tells me to say that I say and the statement transmitted to me is that the President needs to rest for some further time.”
When categorically asked to state what was wrong with the President, Adesina said even medical doctors were forbidden from disclosing their patients’ state of health.
“Don’t you know that the Hippocratic Oath even forbids a doctor from speaking about the condition of his patient except the patient authorises it?
“It is only the patient himself who can speak about what he is going through.
“This is the person going through these series of tests and rest and he says no cause to worry, let us believe that,” he said.
