During his campaign in 2015, President Buhari who promised to end
“medical tourism” by Nigerian politicians who frequent overseas for medical
treatment, has been to Britain five times to seek medical care. Recently,
Buhari left for London for a four-day medical treatment setting off renewed
concerns about his health.
In his three years in office, Buhari has been receiving treatment
for two years for an unspecified illness which he has repeatedly refused to
disclose. To date, Buhari has spent more than 170 days in London on official
medical leave since becoming president in 2015.
We all are humans. We get sick, and we are all going to die. No one
including the president no matter powerful, beloved, or despised, is immune to
the slings and arrows of human disease.
In 2017, the 74-year old president spent 100 days in UK hospital for
an undisclosed ailment. The last publicized medical condition he had was an ear
infection for which he was in the UK for treatment. Aso Rock has consistently
claimed that it's a private affair and that Buhari was fit to continue his role
as president. There is an astounding list of hidden truths when it comes to the
health of President Buhari.
Buhari came to power in 2015 as president of Africa's most populous
nation. His frequent absence has been raising fears and speculation about his
ability to run the country. As a candidate for 2019, we don't need a president
who will govern Nigeria from a London hospital.
Nigeria is running out of civilization. Foods are expensive. Jobs
are scarce. Hospitals are crowded with sick children, the aged, expectant and
nursing mothers while doctors are few or non-existent, no medicine or x-ray
machines. Electricity isn't guaranteed. Nigerians are starving. The only thing
Nigeria has in abundance is chaos. Nobody knows how much worse it will get.
Contrary to government propaganda, the economy isn't doing well.
Violence, killings, and general insecurity have plunged hordes into
needless sickness and starvation. The country is always in the grip of
political crisis. Inequality grows in extreme. There's a long term pain created
by a worthless currency. A small elite class controls everything while the
increasingly impoverished masses fume. The president is missing in action. The
lawmakers are AWOL. All these and more threaten to erode the last vestiges of
our democracy. The turmoil is moving ahead.
Buhari's failing health impacts the complex, high level mental
functions that include the abilities to discriminate, assess, plan, decide,
anticipate, prioritize, and compare. He has no capacity for critical thinking
that will enable him obtain the most thorough and accurate understanding of
situations. His unstable health results in deficient judgment and strategic
thinking which cuases rigid and inflexible thinking.
He's aloof, apathetic about the violence and killings going on in
the country. He makes unguarded statements and focuses on self-promotion. He
fails to identify with citizens feelings and emotions. He's suffering from
self-aware, which makes him to unfairly blame opponents, remote people, and
circumstances for his failures.
You might think that these facts call for Buhari's retirement now.
And yet he and the cabals argue otherwise. The consequences would be severe if
by default or fraud Buhari is elected for a second term. We need a president
who is mentally sound and physically fit, who will always be in Nigeria to
govern.
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