The Presidency has declined to react to the comments by the former acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, warning President Muhammadu Buhari’s handlers to stop exploiting the President’s ailing health for selfish reasons.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Presidency would not speak on the matter.
“We have nothing to say on that (Akande’s statement),” Shehu simply said on Tuesday.
Shehu had, in a statement last week Thursday, assured Nigerians that there was no need for apprehension on the state of health of the President.
While saying the President, on his return to the country, made Nigerians aware of the state of his health while he was in London, Shehu had said full recovery was sometimes a slow process, requiring periods of rest and relaxation.
However, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said it was studying the statement by Akande, one of its leaders.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He said, “It’s a very important statement which we are studying and we will respond appropriately in due course.”
