APC dismiss claims over Buhari's ill health

Following media reports over health concerns for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, the opposition party has dismissed the claims over his poor state of health describing them as mere fabrication of lies by those the political opponents of the former Head of State who are only worried about his rising popularity among the Nigerian electorate.



The APC Campaign Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this is the work of “wicked and evil persons,” who don't mean well for the country. He dismissed the reports of Buhari's ill health but however noted that “as a prominent leader of the opposition, many interests across the globe want him (GMB) over for political and diplomatic consultations,” stating further that the “invitation to the US may not be unconnected to this.”

Reacting to a purported medical report from the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital showing that Buhari had been diagnosed of prostate cancer by the institution, Shehu described the claim as distractive and mischievous noting that “It is untrue and condescending of its exponents. I have it on good authority that GMB has not visited the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in the last five years. So, how can anyone say that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last October, barely three months ago?.

“This is the highest point of political distraction, malice and mischief. The report was not only fake but unfounded. I have spoken to impeccable sources at ABUTH all of whom deny the report and also claimed that the letterhead used was not their regular one, and that Dr. Bala Mohammed that purportedly approved the false medical report is not on the personnel list of that department.”

“Medical report analysis only come from laboratory technologists and not medical doctors as handwritten in this particular case”, Shehu said.

The APC further disclosed that “The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) has discredited the purported report said to have emanated from the hospital to the effect that General Muhammadu Buhari is stricken with cancer.”