{"id":293849,"date":"2020-12-17T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293849"},"modified":"2020-12-17T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:16:17","slug":"jubril-al-sudan-femi-adesina-finally-opens-up-on-buhari-being-cloned-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=293849","title":{"rendered":"Jubril al Sudan: Femi Adesina finally opens up on Buhari ‘being cloned’ in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
As President Muhammadu Buhari Mark\u2019s 78th birthday in Daura, Katsina on Friday, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has addressed claims that the former Head of State died during a medical vacation in London in 2017.<\/p>\n

The rumour of Buhari being dead and cloned has lingered for years in the country, with many people believing that the man in Aso Villa is not Muhammadu Buhari but Jubril from Sudan.<\/p>\n

But in a lengthy article he made available to DAILY POST on Friday, Adesina told some stories to make Nigerians believe that the claims were false.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals,\u201d Adesina began.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with a cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: \u2018Adesina, this is the best I\u2019ve seen you dressed.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.<\/p>\n

\u201cJubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As President Muhammadu Buhari Mark\u2019s 78th birthday in Daura, Katsina on Friday, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has addressed claims that the former Head of State died during a medical vacation in London in 2017. The rumour of Buhari being dead and cloned has lingered for years in the country, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,1570],"class_list":["post-293849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-femi-adesina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}