Buhari’s health- “Needless sensational and exaggerated speculations by conspiracy theorists,”

  

     Garba Shehu who is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity has described as unnecessary the projection of an imminent political and constitutional crisis on account of President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence to attend to his health in London.

   Reacting to what he called “needless sensational and exaggerated speculations by conspiracy theorists,” with regard to an article by a Nigerian historian, Max Siollun, entitled “The gentleman’s agreement that could break apart Nigeria,” published in the United States-based Foreign Policy magazine, Shehu described the article as misleading by comparing President Buhari’s case to that of the late former president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He added that the circumstances are completely different. 

    According to Shehu, unlike the late former president Yar’Adua, President Buhari has duly complied with the constitutional requirements by formally notifying the National Assembly of his intention to go for medical treatment and handed over to Professor Yemi Osinbajo as Acting President.