{"id":53912,"date":"2016-10-16T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=53912"},"modified":"2016-10-16T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:38:46","slug":"okorocha-says-buharis-germany-trip-not-medicals-no-cracks-president-first-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/okorocha-says-buharis-germany-trip-not-medicals-no-cracks-president-first-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Okorocha Says Buhari&#8217;s Germany Trip Not For Medicals, No Cracks Between President, First Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_700186047\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span> dismissed the assertion that<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s three-day visit to Germany was more of a<br \/>\nmedical trip than official engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha, who was part of the president\u2019s entourage to Berlin, Germany,<br \/>\nwas reacting to media interview granted by a Kano-based social<br \/>\ncommentator, Dr. Junaid Muhaamed.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammed had alleged that Buhari visited Germany <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_700186048\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> to seek medical<br \/>\nattention over an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha, who spoke to State House correspondents in Abuja, however,<br \/>\ndebunked the allegation, saying that the official engagements of Buhari in<br \/>\nGermany, had no connection, whatsoever, with medication.<\/p>\n<p>He said the visit to Germany only ended on a compassionate note on<br \/>\nSaturday with the president\u2019s convoy veering off its way back to the<br \/>\nairport in Berlin, to visit a Nigerian military officer receiving<br \/>\ntreatment in a Berlin hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident never went for any medical check-up. At least I was with him<br \/>\ntill <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_700186050\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1.00a.m<\/span><\/span>, after the dinner before I left him and he went to bed,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to bed and the following day I came out to see him in the morning,<br \/>\nSo, the president never went for any medical at all. The only hospital we<br \/>\nwent to was to see a general who had an accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are some of the things that people make uninformed comments and I<br \/>\ndo not know why in this part of our world we are always happy when someone<br \/>\nis going down. I think there is need to change our attitude completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this issue had been on issue on how to move Nigeria forward, you won\u2019t<br \/>\nsee on social media, you will not see comment on it, nobody we talk about<br \/>\nit,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the content of the President\u2019s wife BBC interview and the subsequent<br \/>\nreply by Buhari, he said Aisha did not grant the interview to bring down<br \/>\nher husband as being insinuated in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p>He equally maintained that the president\u2019s reaction to the interview was<br \/>\njust on a lighter mood, saying that Buhari was only cracking jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha, who narrated how his wife once joined some commissioners and<br \/>\nworkers in Imo to condemn certain official decision he took, said Aisha\u2019s<br \/>\ncomments were not meant to disrespect the president or the All<br \/>\nProgressives Congress (APC)<\/p>\n<p>He said her comments were targeted at making peace with perceived<br \/>\naggrieved members of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have been with the person of the President and where he cracks<br \/>\njokes, you will understand with me that it could be his style of jokes<br \/>\nbecause even when he was responding, he was smiling, I don\u2019t think the<br \/>\nmeaning that is given to it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not, why would he have his five daughters having Masters and Ph.Ds and<br \/>\nhis wife educated and putting women in key positions in the country, I<br \/>\ndon\u2019t think it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAisha Buhari, who granted the interview did not give that interview to<br \/>\nbring down her husband\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was only trying to make peace among perceived aggrieved members in<br \/>\nthe polity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have situations where my wife joins commissioners and my workers to<br \/>\ncondemn what I do, that does not mean she is fighting me, rather a bridge<br \/>\nof peace between me and them.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Sunday dismissed the assertion that President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s three-day visit to Germany was more of a medical trip than official engagements. 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