The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, has said nobody can force the President into revealing his health status to Nigerians.
Adesina made the remark while reacting to a question on the possibility that Nigerians will be told the actual health status of President Buhari.
Speaking with Tribune, the Presidential spokesman said, “It is only the president himself that can declare that. And when he came back from London on March 10, he said it that he had never been that sick in his life. That is a declaration of his health status.
“It is within his prerogative to do that. Nobody can do it for him. Not even the doctors treating him can do it for him. Under the Hippocratic Oath, nobody can do it except the patient.
“Nobody; under the Hippocratic Oath, it says that even the doctor has no right to reveal the health status of his patient to anybody. So, it’s only Mr President that can say what exactly is wrong with him.