Nigeria: I have Only Cold, Not Cancer...Buhari PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday, cleared the air on his health status, saying he only had cold and not cancer as rumoured. Speculations were rife on Sunday that the APC presidential standard-bearer was diagnosed of terminal disease, with a newspaper stating that he had been flown abroad. But addressing newsmen at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Sunday, Buhari said “I don’t know the reason for this desperation. The issue we are telling Nigerians is that of corruption in this country. What has my health got to do with that? “Have I been sick on a daily basis? And (that) document has been put on paper, on Tweeter that I am sick. The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) said they are forged documents. This desperation is beyond my understanding.” He tasked politicians to forget issues about his health status, but rather discuss issues about the welfare and well-being of Nigerians. “Vanguard reported that I was to jet out for medical check-up yesterday, but here am I. I was at Nasarawa and Benue states yesterday, tomorrow, I am going to be in two states. “Day after tomorrow, I’ll be in two more states. I am doing two states per day. How they got the impression that I was sick I do not know, although I got cold, but that did not stop me from going through my schedule”, he maintained. When pressed to make a categorical statement on his state of health, Buhari, in a joking manner, asked: “how old are you, 50 years? I am telling you, if we go to the field, you would not last the time I will last in the field.” The APC presidential candidate also declared himself free of corruption charges, saying “that one has been cleared. There is no fraud in PTF. There was an investigation and General Obasanjo has answered that question. He confirmed that there was an investigation and the report was brought to him and there was nothing on ground as far as my management and chairmanship of the PTF was concerned. According to Buhari, “the person who did the investigation, because he was the head of state, cleared me, so what else can I say?” On his certificate, he said that “why didn’t Nigerians ask? I have contested three times under the same rules set by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). I was allowed to contest all these elections because my certificate was in order. There were individuals that wrote to the United States War College and the college answered them, it was published by some of your papers. “Really, this misinformation will do nobody any good, because our minds are being taken away from the serious issues of corruption and incompetence by the PDP.”...Tribune
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:13:57 +0000