{"id":58170,"date":"2017-06-20T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=58170"},"modified":"2017-06-21T05:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T04:11:50","slug":"buhari-cant-talk-suffers-speech-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buhari-cant-talk-suffers-speech-impairment\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Can&#8217;t Talk, Suffers Speech Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammad Buhari has reportedly suffered speech impairment in London where he is undertaking treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that President Buhari left Nigeria 45 days ago to resume treatment for an undisclosed medical condition believed to be cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Saharareporters, citing presidency sources, said that he has developed speech difficulties today in addition to the memory lapses he was suffering.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, \u201cthe latest revelation stems from recent attempts to return the President to Nigeria by members of a cabal managing his health and using it to deceive Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report continues:<br \/>\n\u201cSeveral of President Buhari\u2019s aides who traveled with him are reportedly not in touch with him, reports say, while others were ordered to return to Nigeria, with nobody having any certainty about the prospects of Mr. Buhari\u2019s date of return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring his last trip [it was] revealed that his London doctors rejected the idea of his returning to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked that he remained in London for four months to see how best they could treat his illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless, the cabal managing the president brought him back to enable him to undertake a number of acts including military postings and appointments that would have been impossible with an acting President on seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that time, Buhari revealed he had been very ill and had received blood transfusion, and indicated he would soon return to the UK for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the period he was in Nigeria, he was rarely seen outside, but managed to attend a few Federal Executive Council meetings which he left as soon as the photo opportunities were done with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after that return, his condition deteriorated and doctors had to be flown in from the UK to embark on treatment, but that phase lasted only for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president then stopped attending the weekly FEC altogether, but to maintain the ruse that he was healthy, members of the cabal would shepherd him to the mosque on Fridays hoping to generate sentiments within the core Muslim north where a rumor had circulated that the president had been \u201cpoisoned\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuhari eventually left for the UK abruptly on the evening of <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_551275239\"><span class=\"aQJ\">May 7<\/span><\/span>, shortly after meeting with some Chibok girls who had been released the previous day by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough Buhari spoke at the event, his voice was barely audible, as he had lost a lot of weight, his condition reportedly complicated by Crohn\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the President was leaving for the airport, he shocked his aides when he asked if they were going to Sokoto, perhaps one of the first signs of his deteriorating memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has now been learnt that President Buhari has not spoken to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo by telephone since his departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly last week, the Acting President was asked to await a phone call from Mr. Buhari but when a call eventually came in, nothing coherent was heard from Mr. Buhari, despite the cabal having kept telling people of his \u201ctremendous\u201d improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cabal is also reportedly behind the rumors of a possible coup by some military officers a couple of weeks ago, as well as the recent quit notice by some Northern youths to the Igbos in that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This], they figured would make western countries view such an attempt with understanding if they thought the action would protect Nigeria as an indivisible entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, several top western diplomats including the Ambassadors of the US and the UK, are scheduled to meet with Acting President Osinbajo in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unclear if at that meeting the UK will brief Osinbajo regarding Buhari\u2019s exact condition, but a State Department official told Saharareporters that they are more concerned about Nigeria\u2019s indivisibility than the question of Buhari\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA source at the British Embassy told this website they don\u2019t think Buhari could continue to govern in the condition he is in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari left Nigeria flew into London Heathrow airport on a Presidential jet with registration number 5N-FGT in the first week of 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