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The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has raised fresh alarm over the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.
CUPP said allegations made by his wife that the presidency had been hijacked by some people,
Buhari’s refusal to take questions from Nigerian journalists and only
having to read from prepared speeches were confirmation that he wasn’t
fit to continue in office.
Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesman, in a statement on Sunday, said a
country of about 200 million people cannot be living under the situation
of being in doubt of the mental stability of the man who holds their
mandate to lead and seeking another tenure.
He said: “The international community is also expressing a similar
doubt, hence the reactions in the economy and the withdrawal of their
businesses from the country.
“It is on these premises that we demand for an independent team of
experts in mental health issues to examine President Muhammadu Buhari
and indeed all other presidential candidates to ascertain their mental
stability before polling day.
“We have also secured the assurances of the opposition coalition
consensus Candidate/PDP flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to subject
himself to any such medical exercise for the general interest of
Nigeria.
“CUPP also calls on President Buhari to face the Nigerian media and
stop holding them in disdain as they are professionals and are renowned
world over for their expertise.
“How could a President not speak to any Nigerian media house or
journalist for over three years? How could a President hold his entire
country’s media and citizens in such disdain that he speaks to them only
through a crowd of spokespersons many of who have questionable
characters and mostly dish out fake news to citizens.
“Is it not to hide the mental status of the President that the yet to
beidentified two or three people who have hijacked the Presidency
according to the wife of the President that the President has been
directed not tospeak outside his written speeches?
“Was this directive not also part of the confessions of the wife of
the President when she said named persons who were with her who were not
going to be happy if she went outside the already prepared speech?
“Nigerians want to know the identities of the persons that write
these speeches, their ideologies and their stake in the Nigerian project
because many a time the President reads speeches that are not in tune
with reality as he did during the presentation of budget 2019 and was rightly booed by lawmakers.” - Daily Post
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