Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari denies dying and being replaced by Sudanese clone

[steven36]

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims he died and was replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months.

 

 

Key points:

• Videos claiming the Nigerian President was replaced by a clone have been viewed thousands of times on social media
• Mr Buhari said would soon celebrate his 76th birthday and "will still go strong"
• The presidency circulated its answer in an emailed statement entitled "It's Real Me, President Buhari Responds to Cloning Allegation"

 

Mr Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed illness.

 

One theory widely aired on social media — and by some political opponents — was that he had been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril.

 

No evidence has been presented, but videos making the claim have still been viewed thousands of times on YouTube and Facebook.

 

"One of the questions that came up today in my meeting with Nigerians in Poland was on the issue of whether I've been cloned or not," Mr Buhari said in a post on Twitter, showing a video of his answer at a town hall session in Poland, where he is attending a conference.

 

"The ignorant rumours are not surprising — when I was away on medical vacation last year a lot of people hoped I was dead.

 

"Some people reached out to [the Vice-President] to consider them to be his Vice-President because they assumed I was dead."

 

The presidency circulated Mr Buhari's comments in an emailed statement entitled

 

"It's Real Me, President Buhari Responds to Cloning Allegation".

 

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[Jogs]

Did some body checked the fact in-person, like going to him and asking - Have you really died? 😂

[dMog]

well it has t be true...all conspiracy theories are true... why else would he deny it.

[lurch234]

For more world shaking news go buy a copy of The National Enquirer

[dMog]

54 minutes ago, lurch234 said:

For more world shaking news go buy a copy of The National Enquirer

you mean the only newspaper that trump thinks is real news not fake...

 

about time they recycled the old MAN FOUND ON ICEBERG FROM TITANIC  story... been a while since that one was on the cover ...they keep putting that one out from time to time

[steven36]

4 hours ago, lurch234 said:

For more world shaking news go buy a copy of The National Enquirer

At lest back in  the day when newspapers still sold The National Enquirer  , The Sun  etc was expected to be fake news and they paid for it but now days the problem is social media there is too much News even Facebook used Definers to spread conspiracy theories to smear George Soros, name because he was part of the Anti Facebook Movement and was rich and powerful. 

 

Google's YouTube , Facebook and Twitter  allowed it to go,  on since they opened up  in 2004 even paid fake news posters ad money  incentives and some of there staff  even  was involved with there own fake news campaigns to benefit social media  and now they want  to act like there fixing the problem because the progressives and the right wing have both exposed them in the USA  but the irony of it  is  it took them 14 years to even admit big tech  are a big problem   but stories like the one I posted in the OP shows they no more fixed it  than a man in the moon and everything they say is  just PR lies . There's a big difference in people buying fake news rags  at  the check out in a store than social media paying people to spread fake news for free. 

 

Americans Can Agree On One Thing At Least — The News Media Sucks

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pew-survey-news-media-bias/

 

Social Media Does the Impossible: Unites Parties in Growing Distrust of Them

http://fortune.com/2018/11/19/social-media-facebook-twitter-trust/

 

That makes 2 things the USA  agree on,  but In many developing countries like Nigeria that don't care  about inequality, they  most likely believe everything they read too. In many
countries  in Africa there charging users a internet tax if they log on social media  because  there using social media  to spread fake news and to gossip.

 

Back before all this stuff came out about social media  , I even seen conspiracy theories posted on Nsane forums like Snowden  died before posted by a former staff member  and many members arguing  with me in the comments trying convince  me that it was true,  but dead men can't delete there own  tweets so I knew it was fake from the start. people rather believe a lie than the truth because people no longer know what's true and and what's fake anymore.