I don't know whether General Buhari met with Tony Blair or not? I don't know whether he travelled to the United Kingdom last week or not. But it is almost certain that he will be at Chatham House in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 26th February, 2015. And I also sincerely don't know who will outdo each other between the duo of Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode in their support of President Jonathan and their opposition to General Buhari. (I decided not to bring Dr. Doyin Okupe into this because it seems there is an unspoken consensus among Nigerians not to take him seriously again and I bet that Fayose and Fani-Kayode are going down that path too. In fact the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is trying very hard to distance itself from Fayose's ill-advised moves.) This is not the first time I will be talking about both Fayose and Fani-Kayode. You can read my previous write-up on them in this post
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has been vociferous in his attacks against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari. He has said so many things, some of them outrightly laughable but what he has forgotten is the fact that in the past he had praised to the highest heavens these people he now counts as enemies because of reasons we can imagine ( I don't know if his court case is among them because if it it, he is already reaping the dividend of support the incumbent president. A high court trying him has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release his international passport to the court). Watch this video put together by the APC and see if Chief Femi Fani-Kayode's views should still be taken seriously in our "polticosphere". Please discountenance the news flash on the video frame.
And to Alagba Peteru Fayose whose antics in the very recent past have made him to look like a clown and court jester, I am wondering what is going through his mind. Has he convinced himself to that point that he thinks he is truly being driven by altruistic motives or does he just possess a rabid hatred for General Buhari? But whatever may be the case, he is already sounding to Nigerians like a broken record, The most recent is his assertion that the claim that Buhari met with former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is false. He took the drama further by taking newsmen to a hotel room in Abuja claiming that the general took pictures in the room, which were photoshopped to look like he met with Tony Blair. I was sincerely disturbed that serious newsmen could go around with him instead of looking for newsworthy events. I was even more disturbed that the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) could devote its prime time news - the 9pm Network News - to Fayose's drama. This is probably one of the reasons most Nigerians don't watch it again. What one would have expected the newsmen to do was to put a call through to Tony Blair's office to confirm whether General Buhari met with Tony Blair or not.
I sincerely don't understand Fayose's contention. Is he saying that going to a hospital for medical checkup means you are ill? Does medical checkup translate to being sick? Is that the meaning, executive governor Oshokomole? Even babies are taken for regular medical examination, which is what checkup means. So is Governor Fayose saying that everyone who goes to a hospital in Ekiti State is terminally ill or battling a debilitating ailment? Does he himself not go for checkups? Is he saying that President Jonathan has never gone for medical checkup since he became president? I really do not understand the big deal about a hospital visit, even if General Buhari visited a hospital in the United Kingdom. Where was Governor Fayose when a sick Umar Yaradua was contesting for president? Some PDP governors were away from their states for months due to illness, did Governor Fayose ever come out to ask that they be replaced?
What is even wrong with a septuagenarian going for constant medical checkup? My advice to the governor is this: when you get to your seventies, please don't go for checkups. Does Governor Fayose know that Nelson Mandela became president at 75? And that he had spent over two decades in prison? I think staying in prison that long, especially in an insalubrious setting can make one susceptible to some ailments. Yet South Africans went ahead to elect Nelson Mandela President. Someone should please tell Mr. Fayose that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States was diagnosed of polio even before he was elected president of the United States. And he was elected four times as president. He might have been economical with the truth at times (which I don't approve of) but despite his deteriorating health, he is still regarded as one of the most successful American presidents. And he was a true commander-in-chief during World War II, despite his ailment.
So what's all the fuss about General Buhar's state of health? How many Nigerians of Governor Fayose's age including himself can come out boldly to say they are free of any ailment not to talk of those in General Buhari's age bracket? How many? Please don't get me wrong. I am not canvassing that Nigerians elect an invalid as president, but as much as we can see, General Buhari carries himself well. And what Fayose should be doing is to tell Nigerians why they should vote for President Jonathan instead of expending efforts on why they should not vote for Buhari.
I sincerely don't understand Fayose's contention. Is he saying that going to a hospital for medical checkup means you are ill? Does medical checkup translate to being sick? Is that the meaning, executive governor Oshokomole? Even babies are taken for regular medical examination, which is what checkup means. So is Governor Fayose saying that everyone who goes to a hospital in Ekiti State is terminally ill or battling a debilitating ailment? Does he himself not go for checkups? Is he saying that President Jonathan has never gone for medical checkup since he became president? I really do not understand the big deal about a hospital visit, even if General Buhari visited a hospital in the United Kingdom. Where was Governor Fayose when a sick Umar Yaradua was contesting for president? Some PDP governors were away from their states for months due to illness, did Governor Fayose ever come out to ask that they be replaced?
What is even wrong with a septuagenarian going for constant medical checkup? My advice to the governor is this: when you get to your seventies, please don't go for checkups. Does Governor Fayose know that Nelson Mandela became president at 75? And that he had spent over two decades in prison? I think staying in prison that long, especially in an insalubrious setting can make one susceptible to some ailments. Yet South Africans went ahead to elect Nelson Mandela President. Someone should please tell Mr. Fayose that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States was diagnosed of polio even before he was elected president of the United States. And he was elected four times as president. He might have been economical with the truth at times (which I don't approve of) but despite his deteriorating health, he is still regarded as one of the most successful American presidents. And he was a true commander-in-chief during World War II, despite his ailment.
So what's all the fuss about General Buhar's state of health? How many Nigerians of Governor Fayose's age including himself can come out boldly to say they are free of any ailment not to talk of those in General Buhari's age bracket? How many? Please don't get me wrong. I am not canvassing that Nigerians elect an invalid as president, but as much as we can see, General Buhari carries himself well. And what Fayose should be doing is to tell Nigerians why they should vote for President Jonathan instead of expending efforts on why they should not vote for Buhari.
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