Current News about Buhari's health.

Most columnists, writers and public commentators
have shied away from doing so but today yours truly
will treat a matter and pose a question that is in the
hearts and minds of many both within and outside
Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari
The question is whether President Muhammadu
Buhari (remember him?) is actually dead or still
alive. And, assuming that he is still alive, is he lost
to the world like suffering from the extreme case of
a disease?
These are the relevant and poignant questions that
many are seeking answers to yet this whole matter
and everything that flows from it, for some strange
and inexplicable reason, is shrouded in the utmost
secrecy and subtefuge.
The Presidency has told us that Buhari has travelled
out of the country yet no-one has seen pictures or
footage of him going out of Nigeria or arriving in his
preferred destination in a foreign land.
Assuming that he really did travel out one wonders
which country he was ferried to, whether he went
there on his feet or on his back and whether he is
presently on admission in a hospital or resides in a
private or official residence.
The Presidency claims that he is still alive and we
sincerely hope that this is the case.
Yet many have their doubts simply because it has
been proved over and over again that the Federal
Government cannot be trusted to say the truth on
matters like this
They lie as if there is no tomorrow and consequently
few believe anything that they say including the
assertion that the President is still alive or that he is
running the affairs of our nation from his sick bed in
the United Kingdom.
The truth is that if the Presidency or the Federal
Government told us that it was day outside most of
us would be forced to assume that it was night.
That is how skeptical the more discerning amongst
us are about what those in power tell us.
Between the rulers and the ruled in Nigeria today
there is no trust.
Consequently we are under no obligation, given their
compulsive and sociopathic affinity for mendacities
and deceit, to believe anything that the Buhari
admnistration or the Presidency tells us.
The bottom line is this: if the Worst has happened
stop playing games, tell us the truth.
If he is alive let us know exactly what has afflicted
him, what his condition is, where he is, how he is
doing and, most important of all, give us PROOF OF
LIFE.
Anything short of treading one of these two paths is
not only dishonorable but also utterly reprehensible
and amounts to nothing less than a glaring and
singular insult to the collective sensibilities of the
Nigerian people. Simply put, we have a right to know
the truth.
The usage of lies, deceit, secrecy, subterfuge and
disinformation in the administration of governance
coupled with the promotion of indiscipline, the
encouragement of impunity, the disobedience of
court orders, the undermining of the rule of law, the
destruction of democratic institutions and the lack
of fairness and justice are the worst forms of
corruption.
Sadly this govermment, more than any other in the
history of our country, is guilty of each and everyone
of these grave charges. This is deeply troubling and
it gives us cause not only for concern but also deep
introspection.
Meanwhile we congratulate Acting President Yemi
Osinbajo for finally signing the 2017 budget. Even
though we are already half way through the year, as
they say, it is better late than never.
This is a step in the right direction and it is worthy
of applause and commendation. However what
causes some consternation and beggars belief is the
asinine and childish assertion by Mr. Shehu Garbage
of the Presidency that President Buhari “gave his
permission” for the Acting President to sign it.
Honestly when I heard this contribution I didn’t know
whether to laugh or to cry. I was constrained to ask
when the Presidency had transformed from being
Nigeria’s most powerful and exalted seat of power
into a theater of comedy and a home for second
rate comedians.
These people will do and say anything to hide or
distort the truth and to humiliate and undermine the
authority and standing of Acting President Osinbajo.
And the fact that Osinbajo allows them to get away
with it is an eloquent testimony to his nauseating
weakness and inability to take control and
administer power in the way that he is expected to
do.
After all we do not operate a monarchial system of
government in Nigeria and Buhari is not a King. He
does not have any “divine rights” and he is not a
deity or a ruler with absolute powers.
He is simply a democratically-elected President who
is bound by the rules and conventions of the
constitution and who is meant to be nothing more
than a servant of the people.
In this context the question that needs to be
answered is simple and clear and that question is as
follows.
Does an Acting President need the permission of a
sick, and bed-ridden President, who has been
compelled by his debilitating ill-health to formally
hand over power to his second-in-command as the
constitution dictates, to sign the budget? The
answer is a resounding “no”.
This is especially so when we have been intimated
and informed by an exciteable, well-known and
rabidly pro-government and fanatically pro-APC
online medium known as Saharareporters that the
President is in a “vegetative state” and that he
“cannot speak to those around him or recognise his
environment”.
If the Presidents friends and supporters can write
and publish such things about his medical condition
what are the rest of us supposed to think or believe?
We have been assured by that medium that his
situation is so critical that even his wife was barred
from seeing him when she travelled all the way to
the United Kingdom to do so.
If this is true (and up until the time that I am writing
this contribution it has not been publicly refuted or
denied) it raises some very serious questions and
the first one of those questions is why the
Presidency and the Federal Government deem it
appropiate to hide the truth from the Nigerian
people?
Yet it does not stop there. Mr. Eric Joyce, the well-
known British ex-military, ex-Member of Parliament
and serving MI6 operative who has always had a
special interest in Nigeria and who has always been
an ardent supporter and friend of the President and
his government has come out boldly to suggest that
Buhari is in bad shape and he has challenged the
Nigerian people to ask the Presidency for proof of
life. His words:
“For now, with no sight nor sound of the President
and no proof even of life for some time, it seems
that in a bid to manage the succession the
Presidency may be lying to the public about the
Presidents health or even life, and making Nigeria’s
democratic status a mockery into the bargain”.
If we choose to reject Joyce’s suggestion that
Buhari is in bad shape and we accept the narrative
that he is critically ill, the assertion that he is in a
position to “give permission” for the budget to be
signed remains equally childish and absurd.
And the truth is that the Villa official that made that
astounding assertion are talking and behaving like
second rate actors and low-level performers in an X-
rated, sleazy and seedy Parisian porn film and
Swedish blue movie.
All you hear from them are animal-like grunts and
groans and loud, fake orgasms.
This is corpsocracy in its most glaring, repugnant,
primitive and repulsive form. It is a squalid and
sordid attempt to impose a godless and alien system
of governance which can be best described as the
“rulership of the living by the dead” on the Nigerian
people.
Nigeria cannot be ruled from the grave. She cannot
and must not be ruled by the dark and faceless
agents and sinister emissaries of a shrouded and
embalmed Egyptian-like entombed mummy or the
surrogates of a corpse that is either stone-cold dead
or is dead to to the world and barely alive.
We deserve far better than that and we have the
right to be told the truth no matter how bitter that
truth may be.
The fact of the matter is that anyone that believes
anything that this evil government tells them is truly
lost.
The truth is that it was not Buhari that gave
Osinbajo permission to sign the budget but rather
evil mafia and dark cabal that runs this country in
his name.
If those that put that statement out were not utterly
shameless how can they even say publicly that an
Acting President who is more than capable of
running the country has to wait for permission or for
backing from a sick President that no-one has seen
or heard from in weeks to sign a budget six months
into the fiscal year.
Clearly these people are drunk on power and it has
affected their ability to reason properly or think
straight. Clearly Nigeria is in a precarious position.
They are nothing but sadists whose declared
intention is to keep us in bondage and rule for
another “two hundred years”.
And even as our people are dying of hunger and
being slaughtered on a daily basis by Fulani
herdsmen and Boko Haram they offer no apology for
their shameful and glaring incompetence and neither
do they display any remorse for their inability to
protect the people that they were elected to serve
and defend.
Instead of doing that all they do is just tell us one
lie after the other. For example when asked about
Buhari’s medical condition the Minister of
Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, had the effontry
and nerve to tell Channels Television that
“President Buhari is alive and well and he talks to
Acting President Osinbajo every day!”
If anyone believes that hogwash they will believe
anything! And the minute Lai said it his already big,
fat and oversized nose grew ten inches longer.
What a terrible plague and affliction has befallen this
nation

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