There is something about President Muhammadu Buhari, that somehow attracts drama to him. It is difficult to say if it is about him as a person, or about the people whom he has surrounded himself with. But somehow, his administration has given the country the highest dose of comedy!!!
From ridiculous statements being made, and his Spokespersons saying they were taken out of context, to blatant attempts at provide impossible meanings for utterances made by Mr. President in English; it has been a fully packed drama series!!!
Now we are enjoying the “phone call drama”. First the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, celebrated the fact that Mr. President called him, then the Kano State Governor, released a comic clip of himself talking to the President.
Most recent, is the present tussle between two of Buhari’s Spokespersons, Garba Shehu, and Femi Adesina, both celebrating received and missed calls from the President.
While both Spokespersons were so elated that the President called them, that they had to take to the Social Media to declare their undying love for the President who finally decided to talk to his mouthpieces, Femi Adesina let dropped one key thing; he had been talking to the President since the man left for London.
Adesina’s admission then raised the question, who has been giving him the statement he has been issuing on behalf of the President? Does a hale and hearty President now have a mouthpiece through which he issues directives, to his direct mouthpieces? If that is the case, how do we know that such statements were actually from the President? Why is the President being shielded from even talking directly to his own mouthpieces, since he has been away? How bad is Muhammadu Buhari’s health?
It is a huge pity that we have come to the stage where a mere phone call (whether that is even true, is subject to scrutiny, as the elation displayed by both Shehu and Adesina portrays a certain sense of theatrics) from our President to his own Spokespersons, is now considered a great deal. This seems to be in following with the idea of the Donald Trump phone call controversy, and the belief, that saying that the President called, would somehow make Nigerians believe the lies about a hale and hearty President. However, whatever motivated this new comedy, it has become the trend right now.
Beyond all that, what becomes immediately clear, is that the idea of a cabal, whose hand on Nigeria’s neck is so tight that it is asphyxiating the nation, is not a myth. In fact, it stands to reason now that this cabal has been the one issuing statements, controlling access to Buhari, and generally trying to force him to defy his medical condition, and hang on as Nigeria’s President, no matter the cost to the progress of Nigeria.
Recall, that Aisha Buhari alluded to this recently, and Adesina has confirmed it for us.
One other thing is also very certain from the entire phone call drama; Buhari is seriously not well.
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