{"id":24109,"date":"2018-12-03T08:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24109"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:24:20","slug":"nigeria-president-buhari-denies-dying-its-the-real-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24109","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria President Buhari denies dying: &#8216;It&#8217;s the real me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"85.6898245614\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/Search\/?q=Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria\u2019s<\/a> President Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, quashing a rumour that has circulated on social media for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;It\u2019s the real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,&#8221; Buhari told Nigerians in a town hall session in Poland on Sunday, where he was attending a conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health,&#8221; he said, adding that those who spread the rumor were &#8220;ignorant and irreligious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian leader, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in the UK last year being treated for an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n<p>One theory widely aired on social media &#8211; and by some political opponents &#8211; was that he had been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"6.11711711712\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of the questions that came up today in my meeting with Nigerians in Poland was on the issue of whether I\u2018ve been cloned or not. The ignorant rumours are not surprising \u2014 when I was away on medical vacation last year a lot of people hoped I was dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SHTngq6LJU\">pic.twitter.com\/SHTngq6LJU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MBuhari\/status\/1069300887510806528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No evidence has been presented, but videos making the claim have still been viewed thousands of times on YouTube and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The presidency circulated Buhari\u2019s comments in an emailed statement entitled &#8220;It\u2019s Real Me, President Buhari Responds to Cloning Allegation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, quashing a rumour that has circulated on social media for months. &#8220;It\u2019s the real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,&#8221; Buhari told Nigerians in a town&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}