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Fact-Check: Has President Muhammadu Buhari Died And Been Replaced By An Impostor?
A number of high-profile public figures in Nigeria, including a former government minister, have claimed President Muhammadu Buhari is dead and is being imitated by a man called “Jubril” “from Sudan”.
CrosscheckNigeria, a collaboration of newsrooms in Nigeria which includes The ICIR has investigated this claim and found no evidence to support it. The earliest mention of the claim of an imposter was in a Twitter post by user @sam_ezeh on September 3rd, 2017.
A video outlining the claim has since been shared more than 5,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. In it, Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), tells his followers that Buhari had died.“The man you are looking at on the television is not Buhari… His name is Jubril, he’s from Sudan.
After extensive surgery they brought him back,” he says. Kanu has separately referred to the supposed lookalike as “Jubril Al-Sudani”. Others have called him “Jibrin”. Neither Kanu nor the others making the claim have provided any credible evidence.
The rumour has been fueled by the real-life death of a Nigerian diplomat in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum in May 2018.
There have been allegations that the diplomat was deliberately killed due to his involvement in the supposed cover-up about Buhari.
Reno Omokri, a former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan and Femi Fani Kayode, a former government special advisor and minister under president Olusegun Obasanjo, have both repeated the claims.
Several videos repeating the claims have been viewed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube more than 500,000 times.
Ajayi Boroffice, a professor of genetics, has also dismissed the possibility of cloning a 75-year–old man such as Buhari.
According to him, it is “ridiculous for anybody to think Mr.President has been cloned and that the person who is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a clone from Sudan.”
Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 4:58 pm
Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 4:57 pm
YES
Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 9:25 am
yes
Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 9:08 am
I know Nnamdi kanu very well. He doesn’t lie. Whatever he says is true
Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 7:58 am
Yes ,jubril should better go back to his country
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Anonymous
December 2, 2018 at 6:20 am
Yes ,late buhari have been replaced by another person
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 9:37 pm
EVEN THE EMIR OF KANO IS WONDERING AT THIS BRAND OF BUHARI ? SHAME ON NIGERIA AND HER DECEIT
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 9:36 pm
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 9:00 pm
He die longtime ago, impostor that is what is ruling our dear country
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 7:37 pm
Yes
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December 1, 2018 at 5:04 pm
Jubril didn’t want Chief Saraki to see his face. This country is in a mess.
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 4:42 pm
Can’t people see the way sarika is looking at him hahhaaha this country
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Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 3:59 pm
Jubril
Dr. Peter Ejirika,CPA
December 1, 2018 at 4:54 pm
Nigerians, most especially the Awolowo Group of the literate Yoruba indigenes should convince Mohammadu Buhari to prove to the whole world that he is alive, this is the contention of Biafra Intelligentsia in the United States though Buhari and Atiku are opposite sides of the same Awusa/Fulani coin.
Pilot Officer Peter Ejirika
Veteran of the Battle of Onne
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 3:52 pm
All this copy and paste news sef….same write up on all the major publications..word for word as if Aso Rock had given them the press release to publish….Nawaooh, they didn’t even disguise or make it unique. This is how dumb all this gutter media is.
Anonymous
December 1, 2018 at 3:48 pm
The evidence shows on Saraki’s face…