Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari is ‘Jubril of Sudan,’ but the Presidency refuted his assertion.
In his weekly column, Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, called it “idiocy” to say that his principle is dead and has been replaced by Jubril from Sudan.
He recalls how Buhari recognized him when he returned from a medical stay abroad in 2017.
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“I recall that day in August 2017, when the President finally returned to the country from his medical vacation,” the piece says. He’d been in and out a few times since January of that year, but he’d been spending weeks and months outside, looking to his health. Finally, on August 19, he joyfully returned home.
We were waiting for him at the airport. I’ve told the story several times to dispel the myth that it was a specific Sudanese man named Jibril who returned, not Buhari. The daughter of Gen Gabriel Olonisakin, the former Chief of Defence Staff, was getting married. And I’d dressed myself in full Yoruba regalia for both the church service and the reception.
We, the President’s top aides, were in line to greet him as he stepped off the plane. And, as is usual of him, he shook hands with each person, cracking a wisecrack or two. “Adesina, this is the finest I’ve seen you dressed,” he commented when he saw me. We both burst out laughing.
Sudan’s Jibril? What made him think I was Adesina? What makes him think he knows how I generally dress? Idiocy, I say once more. But that’s just a sidebar; the tale I actually want to share to support the matter at hand isn’t about that.”
Following Buhari’s medical travel to London in 2017, Kanu speculated on his death.
He had claimed that Buhari was cloned and replaced with Jubril Al-Sudan after his death.