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Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says the “secret trip” made on Thursday by Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the United Kingdom (UK) has shown that the APC leaders, especially Bola Tinubu, are “covering up his true health status for their selfish gains”.

Buhari left Abuja for the UK on Thursday for what Garba Shehu, spokesman of APC presidential campaign organisation, said was a brief working visit, but Fayose believes the trip was made “en route to the United States of America for medical treatment”.

In a statement issued by Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and new media, Fayose said the main opposition party was not saying the truth.

“The truth is that Buhari travelled out today to seek medicare in the USA. If the APC people are saying otherwise, let them publish the picture of Buhari boarding the plane and granting interview to aviation correspondents at the Abuja Airport,” he said.

“While I am happy that the APC people that are packaging Buhari finally harkened to my plea that they should allow him (Buhari) to seek medicare abroad, I must say that it was evil for the APC to have lied that Buhari travelled on a working visit.

“These APC political merchants should say the truth and save Nigeria from the possibility of another Yar’Adua experience. They should tell Nigerians that Buhari is actually sick and lacks capacity to rule Nigeria and that they are only packaging him, hoping that he will become incapacitated if he becomes president so that they can take over power by proxy. Like I have maintained, the north should wait till 2019 to produce a younger, energetic and healthy president of Nigeria.”

It is not the first time that Fayose has publicly questioned Buhari’s health status.

On January 28, he urged APC leaders to allow Buhari seek medical attention abroad, saying the candidate was “old and sick”.

That was nine days after he sponsored a newspaper advertorial that implied that Buhari would die in office if elected, and accused Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo of plotting to plunge the country into the same constitutional crisis that followed late President umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s ill-health and subsequent death.