AbdulAziz AbdulAziz, senior assistant to President Bola Tinubu on print media, has dismissed a report by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) alleging that the president is sick.
The ICIR had quoted unnamed sources claiming that the president’s medical team was preparing to fly him abroad for urgent treatment.
According to the report, Tinubu had been bedridden for several days, leading to his absence from key state functions.
But speaking with BBC Hausa on Monday, AbdulAziz described the claims as false and misleading.
“There is no scintilla of truth in that report; as I speak to you, the president is currently in his office attending to state matters,” he said.
Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, also dismissed the report.
His words: “People just tell you all kinds of rumours that have no basis at all. He was in his office yesterday [August 5]. I was with him. I went to see him. He came to work.”
Onanuga added that the president could choose to work from home or the office.