Despite contrary pictures, Buhari not yet in Japan, IPOB insists
* Claims Buhari stopped over @ Oman
* To leave for Japan tonight
* Aircraft to land in Hanedu airport
By Steve Oko
Despite pictures released by the Presidency to confirm that President Muhammadu Buhari is already in Japan for an international conference, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, has insisted that the President is not yet in Japan.
IPOB which vowed to disgrace and arrest the President if sighted in Japan said its members had been searching for him all over the country but had not spotted him.
According to press statements issued by the pro-Biafra group Buhari is yet to arrive Japan.
The statement signed by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful claimed that the pictures of the President being received in Japan by a Junior Minister as the Japanese Prime Minister was in France for the G7 summit was a photo-shop.
IPOB which alleged the President’s handlers hired a Chinese firm to do the photoshoping said Buhari’s flight had a stop over in Oman.
According to IPOB, the President’s aircraft will leave for Hanedu airport Tokyo later tonight from Muscat airport Oman.
IPOB which said its members has been strategically located in Japan waiting for the arrival of Buhari urged members of the public to discountenace the pictures of the President circulating in the social media as Buhari having already touched off in Japan.
IPOB which also faulted claims in one of the pictures that young Koreans were at the Japanese welcoming the President, vowed to create history in the world by Tuesday when Buhari might eventually land in Japan.
Below are full texts of both statements :
“IPOB intelligence unit (M-Branch) can authoritatively confirm that the fake Nigerian president …has not arrived yet in Japan. We have the confidential flight log of the presidential jet carrying Jubril-Buhari.
“All the photoshopped pictures APC politicians have been flooding Facebook with are all fake and designed to deceive the public. Jubril-Buhari stopped over in Muscat capital of Oman.
“From what we know of his flight details (see proof below) he is scheduled to leave for Tokyo tonight. IPOB Japan should know he is heading to Tokyo HANEDU Airport from Oman. Airport code HND.
“They can deceive their fellow Nigerians but not IPOB. We are waiting for him at Hanedu Airport.
“Below are the supposedly confidential flight details of Jubril-Buhari’s presidential jet that departed Abuja yesterday. Please be aware they have now hired Chinese digital experts to help them with editing and picture manipulation of Jubril’s visit to Japan but we are IPOB, we are more intelligent than them.
“COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB”
An earlier statement read”
“The Grand Deception has Begun: Jubril-Buhari Still Missing in Japan over 24 Hours after Departure from Nigeria
“As with previous photoshopped visit of the impostor on behalf of the dead Muhammadu Buhari, the much publicised presidential visit to Japan has kicked off with another round of deceit, well craftrd lies and photoshop.
“We must recall the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, issued a statement a few days ago regarding this visit. In that statement he said and I quote, “President Buhari will be accompanied by governors Babagana Zulum, AbdulRaham AbdulRazaq and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Borno, Kwara and Lagos States respectively; ministers and other top government officials.”
“Yesterday Femi Adesina went ahead and published photographs allegedly taken inside the presidential jet as those mentioned above sat with Jubril-Buhari on their way to Tokyo. (Please see the first picture)
“More than 24 hours after the widely reported departure of Jubril-Buhari presidential jet from Abuja and without any confirmed landing at Tokyo airport or elsewhere in Japan, where IPOB had camped waiting to receive him, shockingly another set of pictures have emerged from Aso Rock claiming to be pictures of Jubril-Buhari being welcomed by a group of Japanese, this time Gov. Ortom makes a mysterious entry as part of the entourage. See second picture. Incredible! Which country on this earth welcomes a head of state with a banner? See third picture.
“Gov. Ortom that wasn’t mentioned as part of the original entourage has miraculously appeared in Japan seated to the left of the Foreign Minister Geofrey Onyeama. The world can now see how fraudulent politicians have been deceiving gullible Nigerians with their photoshopped pictures over the years. The public should not be deceived, Jubril-Buhari is not in Japan and if he is, he is in hiding. He should come out to address the people or make known his presence.
“Note, there is no video coverage of him being welcomed to Japan as protocol demands but out of the blue pictures have emerged of a 45 year old man claiming to be Buhari, all smiling, in an undisclosed location somewhere they claim is Japan. Where is NTA News? Nigeria is a country founded on lies and will die by lies.
“Aso Rock should stop hiding Jubril-Buhari, they should bravely announce or disclose where he is staying as every genuine head of state would. They should proudly tell us where their Sudanese president is hiding that we may give him proper IPOB welcome.
SIGNED:
“COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY ON BEHALF OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU IPOB LEADER.”
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