Former minister of transport and also Chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, in an interview with the Nigerian Tribute said that contrary to what many where made to believe, the actual peddlers of the President's death rumor are people from his own party. He also said Buhari knows them and would treat them same way he treated Yahya Jameh of the Gambia.
Responding to questions on state of the nation, Babatope said:
We are going to fight very, very well if they can allow PDP to stand on its feet. We are going to present a candidate in 2019 and we don’t agree on the APC rulership. The APC rulership is evil for Nigeria; you can see their president went abroad for treatment. It is the party leadership who have been promoting the idea that the man has died, not PDP. It is the APC people who have spread the rumour that Buhari has died; I wouldn’t wish that for Buhari.
Those who are doing that don’t know what they are doing to themselves. Buhari is a very, very intelligent Hausa-Fulani man and people don’t know that Buhari is President-General of all Fulani in West Africa. I am telling you the truth. Go and ask my late friend, Lam Adesina (former Oyo State governor) who died. When he offended the Fulanis, Buhari went to meet him in the Government House and said a lot and, of course, you know Lam Adesina gave it back to him.
Buhari is a difficult fighter, all of them who are fighting him now in his party, they are charlatans; they don’t know Buhari; you would not quote him for anything. Now that Buhari has finished Yahaya Jameh (former Gambia ruler), he would turn his attention to some people in APC; he would wipe them out.
