By Banji
Ojewale
Out there in faraway Poland the other day, Nigeria’s President
Muhammadu Buhari put out a disclaimer that he isn’t what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says he is. Kanu asserts the man
we refer to as our beloved president is really his double. The one we voted for
died in London last year during his medical tour, he says. His loyalists then
packaged a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril Aminu Al-Sudani to impersonate him,
the Biafran agitator concludes. Kanu hasn’t thrown the tale to us as a joke. He
believes in it as he does he is the runaway leader of outlawed IPOB. He has
captured a credulous followership, among them many of the high and the low in
the society.
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| *President Buhari |
Even the yarn has got sections of the global media salivating. On
American television programme, The Daily Show hosted by South
African Trevor Noah, a correspondent ridiculed the Nigerian leader’s denial. He
imitated a fraudster composing a scam email thus: “I’m a real president who’s trapped in my country because they think I’m
a clone. Please send me $10000.’’
