Presidency reacts as IPOB declares Buhari missing in Japan
People of Biafra, IPOB, has “nothing to do with
President Muhammadu Buhari since he arrived
Yokohama, Japan, on Monday.”
Buhari had departed Nigeria yesterday for Japan
to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International
Conference on African Development (TICAD7)
holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30,
2019.
DAILY POST on Monday reported the arrival of
Buhari in Japan.
However, IPOB alleged that the President was not
in Japan, stressing that photographs of Buhari
were photoshopped.
Responding to the allegation, Buhari’s Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina,
urged Nigerians to disregard the claims by IPOB.
In a statement forwarded to DAILY POST, Adesina
said: “Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora are
urged to disregard concocted stories, backed with
spurious visuals, of any protest or harassment of
the President and his team. It is the stock-in-trade
of hate mongers, who do not realize that the rest
of Nigerians have left them far behind.
“President Buhari will make his presence at the
Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African
Development (TICAD7) count for Nigeria, and no
scare-mongering or sabre-rattling will detract from
the outing.”
Peter Obi, the 2019 vice-presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied
making any public statement about the attack on
a former Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu.
Ekweremadu was on Saturday assaulted in
Nuremberg, Germany by suspected members of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Obi, in a statement by his spokesperson, Val
obienyem, said he has not spoken about the
incident because of his characteristic calmness
but has appropriately made calls both within and
outside the country.
Obienyem dismissed as fake the statement
purportedly credited to his principal on the
incident.
According to the statement, “the attention of the
Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP, Peter Obi
has been drawn to a statement on the incident in
Germany, purportedly made by him.
“As a matter of fact, Mr. Peter Obi was neither in
Lagos nor did he attend any PDP meeting in
Lagos on Sunday, August 18, where he
supposedly made the statement.
“We wish to place on record that Mr. Peter Obi
has not made any public statement on the matter.
In his characteristic calmness, he has
appropriately made calls both within and outside
the country. I assure you that in the end, he is for
what is best for the Igbos and the country.”
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