President is the one who can release his own health status - Femi Adesina
- The Presidency said only President Buhari can disclose his current state of his health to the public
- The president’s media aide, Femi Adesina said when he last spoke to the President, he didn’t mention the state of his health
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that only the president can tell Nigeria about his current state of health.
Recall that President Buhari departed Abuja for the United Kingdom on Thursday, January 19, on a 10-day leave as a part of his annual vacation.
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When asked about the current state of the president’s health, Adesina who spoke on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels TV on Sunday, February 5, said: “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.
“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.”
When asked when the President is likely to return, Adesina said: “If there was a date he would return, it would have been in that statement.
“But the issue now is (that) 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 all the time he desires and when his doctors give him a clean bill of health, he then can return home.”
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Meanwhile, Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, insisted that the president was not in a hospital as being widely circulated but at the Nigerian High Commission in UK.
He said: “I just spoke to the president’s personal doctor, and he told me President Buhari is not in any serious condition as to worry about.
“He is not in hospital. He is in the residence at the Nigerian High Commission.”
Watch the Video of Femi Adesina's interview below:
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