Why it will be wrong to compel Buhari to speak from UK

Why it will be wrong to compel Buhari to speak from UK – Adesina

– The presidency insists that Buhari is only in London, United Kingdom, for vacation and is not in any hospital

– Presidential media aide, Femi Adesina, says the president is on vacation and he has given a date on which he will return to work

Femi Adesina insists Buhari is on vacation.

The presidency has said it will amount to infringement on the right of Muhammadu Buhari if the president is compelled to speak from the UK to dispel rumour making the round on his state of health.

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The special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has also insisted that Buhari is only in London, United Kingdom, for vacation and is not in any hospital.

The Punch reports the Adesina in an interview with CNBC Africa, on Thursday, January 26, said the president is in London on vacation and is not in any hospital as rumoured

He said: “When he was travelling last week, the statement we put out was that he was going on vacation and during the vacation, he would do routine medical check-up and nothing has changed from what we pushed out last week.

“If anybody has fed something else into the rumour mill, that is just what it is — rumour.”

When asked if Buhari would be willing to talk to Nigerians from the UK, Adesina said such a decision could only be taken by the President himself.

The presidential aide said any attempt to compel Buhari to do so would

amount to infringement on his rights.

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“The fact that he is a President, he still has his rights. Compelling him to come out and talk will be infringing on his rights.

“The President will talk if he wishes to. If he doesn’t wish to, nobody will compel him to talk.

“The truth is that the President is on vacation and he has given a date on which he will return to work,’’ Adesina said.

In a related development, the Senate President Bukola Saraki has decried the attempt by some section of the media to drag him into the death rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Saraki advised those peddling such news not to involve him in the matter.

The Senate President through a statement signed by his spokesperson Yusuph Olaniyonu said he had first ignored the rumours after it first started.

He however said that calls from various parts of the country and abroad promoted the need to address the issue.

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