The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), has discredited the
purported report said to have emanated from the hospital to the effect
that General Muhammadu Buhari is stricken with cancer, the APC
Presidential Campaign Organisation has said.
A statement by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC Campaign
in Abuja on Saturday described as disdainful, distractive, mischievous,
fake and fallacious the trending news report of an alleged prostate cancer
condition of its presidential flag bearer, Buhari being credited to a
source from the renowned Teaching Hospital.
“It (report of cancer) is untrue and condescending of its exponents. I
have it on good authority that GMB has not visited the Ahmadu Bello
University Teaching Hospital in the last five years. So, how can anyone
say that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last October, barely three
months ago?” Garba Shehu, Director, Media and Publicity of the Campaign
said.
“This is the highest point of political distraction, malice and mischief.
The report was not only fake but unfounded. I have spoken to impeccable
sources at ABUTH all of whom deny the report and also claimed that the
letterhead used was not their regular one, and that Dr. Bala Mohammed that
purportedly approved the false Medical Report is not on the personnel list
of that department,” he said.
Aside, Shehu said sources at ABUTH also disclosed that “Medical Report
analysis only come from Laboratory Technologists and not Medical Doctors
as handwritten in this particular case, stressing that General Buhari did
not attend the hospital for cancer or any other ailment.”
Shehu also dismissed as figment of the imagination of “wicked and evil
persons,” rumour that General Buhari may be travelling to the United
States towards the end of this month for medical check up.
He restated its earlier statement on Friday that Buhari is as fit as a
fiddle.
Shehu while dismissing the report as fabrications, however, said that “as
a prominent leader of the opposition, many interests across the Globe want
him (GMB) over for political and diplomatic consultations,” adding that
the “invitation to the US may not be unconnected to this.”