Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stirred up a fresh controversy over his real age when he said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75.

Buhari spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, led a delegation to pay him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The President, joined by state governors and other top government officials, celebrated his 75th birthday penultimate Sunday. He was said to have been born on December 17, 1942, in Daura, present day Katsina State.

While thanking his guests for the visit, Buhari recalled the health challenge that kept him away from the country for months earlier in the year and admitted that 2017 had been a tumultuous year for him.

The President said he had recovered well from the sickness because he obeyed his doctors who instructed him to be eating and sleeping well.

He said, “I am very grateful (to you) for taking time out on a very important day to come out and spend it with us.

It has been a tumultuous year. I am thinking I am 75. I thought I was 74 but I was told I was 75.

“I have never been so sick, not even during the 30-month civil war that I was stumbling under farm of yams or cassava.

“But this sickness…I don’t know, but I came out better. All those who saw me before said I look much better when I came back.

“But I have explained it to the public that as a General, I used to give orders. But now, I take orders. The doctors told me to feed my stomach and sleep for longer hours. That is why I am looking much better.”

Buhari said he appreciated the visit because he respects good neigbourliness both at individual and national levels.

He said that was why immediately after his inauguration as President in 2015, his first foreign trip was to Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin Republic.

“If you are in good terms with your neigbours, then you can make some savings for development.

“But if you start fighting your neigbours, then I am afraid the resources you have you will lose it in trying to be very clever.

“So I try to be very close to my neigbours both individually and nationally. I thank you very much for being very good neigbours,” he added.

The President admitted that 2017 has been a tough year for Nigeria.

He expressed the hope that next year would be more prosperous for the country.

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Baba that can not remember his age; how do we want him to remember complex issues like governing Nigeria...

He expressed the hope that next year would be more prosperous for the country


So at the tale end your administration is when you would stop blame game

what an irony ?!

well, it was Nigerians that voted for him and not foreigners
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Nigeria is indeed a funny nation and still want him back come 2019...It is really well gan nii

Bubu still jumping up and down with his football age

Omooba77:
Baba that can not remember his age; how do we want him to remember complex issues like governing Nigeria...

That's why the dullard must be returned to daura by any means necessary in 2019. His cows misses him

He is 86

sarrki should come and tell us his real age .

People do mistake their age atimes but some fools here who are from phylum pigotus idiotus think otherwise.

Ohammadike:
Bubu still jumping up and down with his football age

is that not a big shame to idiotic pigs of Biafra that a man of 78 is still very much strong with his football age.

usba:
People do mistake their age atimes but some fools here who are from phylum pigotus idiotus think otherwise.

Please when are we going to be out of this slave mentality sir of defending anything. It means you can forget your age. That means simple simple addition and subtraction is very tasking for you sir.

How can someone be confused about his age? most likely the senility that comes with old age

Baba u re correct

that show how stupid you are

Sir you are not less than 80.

Who else still takes this man serious.

Well meaning Nigerians could not even celebrate Christmas because of the pains you made them go through and you are now telling us about age.

I beg, who age help? Na age we won chop?

You can't even deliver your electoral promises in 2 and half years yet. 2019 is just around the corner.

Alaye we don't have fuel, wetin concern me wit ur football age

someone wey no know him age na him you won make him dey aware of the happening in the country. Buhari i give up on ur matter

Baba don finally remember E real age. Let's dance...

oya sarrki ti bobo......

A president that does not know his real age, is that one president

No...You're 57 sir!

I bet you that this man has also forgotten his real name

The Office of the Presidency is very insensitive and incapable. What is this piece of BS supposed to do in alleviating the sufferings of the masses.

BTW It is clear he is suffering from memory loss so I want him to resign

WTF!!! Your MCM can't remember his actual age but you want him to remember his responsibilities.

how does that concern us?

When u will be traveling up and down why won't u forget your age. Dullard-inho

Effect of memory loss.

Hopeless Man. Why won't you have memory loss? After tagging Igbos 5%, how have you bettered the lives of the other 97%? Nkita ara nwuru anwu answer me.

I pray you win again in 2019. Because you will sink Nigeria by then.

Meanwhile, there is a rabid, senile Igbo hater on this forum who has sworn that Igbos won't know peace on this forum. A vulture who the mother should have kept the umbilical cord and thrown away at child birth. Below is what he said;

Adminisher:


The fact that having a Father who is Hausa and a Mother who is IBO is a CRIME to you guys is the reason your tribe will never produce a President in Nigeria

Please mark these words. You have cursed yourselves with those words. Progress is impossible for your people for entertaining these satanic attitude in 2017.

There is ZERO hope. ZERO happiness and fulfilment with this self fulfilling prophecy on your people.

Hausa Dad and Ibo man is a crime to you guys?.
You are DEAD already , only you don't know it. No wonder you fail at everything.

So you guys chose your parents?. You told God you wanted to black, African and Nigerian?. What choice does any of us have in circumstances of birth?. Is it not God?.

You guys are FINISHED!!!. We now know the problem of Nigeria and who will always get the rough end of the stick.

Well, my humble and gentle response to you without apology is this;

You worthless Vulture and Rabid dog.

May this curse you sent out to Igbo people return to you and your worthless tribe be you from the North or South.

Your immediate whole family will never know peace.

Before the the year runs out, 3 of your family members will die by terrible accident.

May the thunder of the holy ghost destroy and light up your family house.

May the curse of Ichabod and Jabez never depart from your life and your children both born and unborn and may it remain so till eternity.

The earth will reject you from this day forth.

Go to hell with your Nigerian presidency. All we Igbos want is our freedom which God will give us soon.

I place a curse on your whole family.

Poverty and Death is yours in Jesus name Amen.

No rich man will ever come out of your kindred

By next year, people will be dying like ram in your kindred through accident.

May burial be the daily portion of your whole tribe and state.

May an incurable disease hit your anus and the anus of your whole family that you people will eat this Christmas and never use toilet for the next 7 months.

May your whole family start decaying while alive that anybody they pass will put handkerchief to he nose.

For cursing Igbo people, may erosion and earthquake wipe out your whole village and state with no survivor

The united Nations will soon declare your village and community an IDP.

Any Mod that deletes my comment or bans me while allowing the comment of this iddiot will take the same curse as this worthless bastard.

If you dont die within a year, then God is not with Igbo people. You will and must die.

No Pastor, Bishop, Prophet, Pope, Priest, Native Doctor or Babalawo can unlock the curse on you today.

As For Ndigbo, the Love and Favour of God shall always remain with us. No matter the type of media war and physical attacula the likes of these ones push to us, we shall always defeat them. Igbos will always remain the number one tribe in Africa. Our sons and daughters shall always go and come back in peace. Since God is with us, it shall never FINISH WITH US. Our help is from God and Zion. No Bastarrd born of a han being can eliminate us. As far as Nigeria is hostile to Igbos, Nigeria will never know peace.

Ojiofor ga ana. Ndigbo mma mma nu.

Same goes to other Igbo haters on this forum. 2018 will be hell on earth for you folks if you don't repent from Igbo hatred. Buhari's worthless government is a testimony of what hate can breed. You hate on us, God makes you look stupid even to your own children.

Who cursed us like this?

Buhari has Amnesia

No u are 130 not 75, I know this because my grand father of 90 have sense more than you

Okay ooo :D7