‘It is not true': ABUTH discredits Buhari cancer report

A statement by the Directorate of Media and
Publicity of the APC Campaign in Abuja on
Saturday described as disdainful, distractive,
mischievous, fake and fallacious the trending
news report of an alleged prostate cancer
condition of its presidential flag bearer, Buhari
being credited to a source from the renowned
Teaching Hospital.
“It (report of cancer) is untrue and....

condescending of its exponents. I have it on good
authority that GMB has not visited the Ahmadu
Bello University Teaching Hospital in the last five
years. So, how can anyone say that he was
diagnosed with prostate cancer last October,
barely three months ago?” Garba Shehu, Director,
Media and Publicity of the Campaign said.
“This is the highest point of political distraction,
malice and mischief. The report was not only
fake but unfounded. I have spoken to impeccable
sources at ABUTH all of whom deny the report
and also claimed that the letterhead used was
not their regular one, and that Dr. Bala
Mohammed that purportedly approved the false
Medical Report is not on the personnel list of that
department,” he said.
Aside, Shehu said sources at ABUTH also
disclosed that “Medical Report analysis only come
from Laboratory Technologists and not Medical
Doctors as handwritten in this particular case,
stressing that General Buhari did not attend the
hospital for cancer or any other ailment.”
Shehu also dismissed as figment of the
imagination of “wicked and evil persons,” rumour
that General Buhari may be travelling to the
United States towards the end of this month for
medical check up.
He restated its earlier statement on Friday that
Buhari is as fit as a fiddle.
Shehu while dismissing the report as fabrications,
however, said that “as a prominent leader of the
opposition, many interests across the Globe want
him (GMB) over for political and diplomatic
consultations,” adding that the “invitation to the
US may not be unconnected to this.”
The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital
(ABUTH), has discredited the purported report
said to have emanated from the hospital to the
effect that General Muhammadu Buhari is stricken
with cancer, the APC Presidential Campaign
Organisation has said.