{"id":17306,"date":"2017-12-25T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2017-12-25T23:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:35:01","slug":"president-buhari-does-not-know-how-old-he-is-says-i-thought-i-was-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=17306","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT BUHARI DOES NOT KNOW HOW OLD HE IS, SAYS &#8220;I THOUGHT I WAS 74&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Amidst speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari is about 85 year old, the president on Monday said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paszonecont_64367\" class=\"paszone_container paszone-container-64367 center_pas \" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1500386953281-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CNPpksWXptgCFY4W0wodhtEEMQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_Adsense_1_0__container__\">\u200bSpeaking, Buhari recalled the health challenge that kept him away from the country for months earlier in the year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said he had recovered well from the sickness because he obeyed his doctors who instructed him to be eating and sleeping well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI am very grateful (to you) for taking time out on a very important day to come out and spend it with us \u200b\u201d, Punch quoted him as saying.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=15484&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hBvGWd3g\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"paszonecont_78723\" class=\"paszone_container paszone-container-78723 \">\n<div class=\"pasinfotxt above\">\u00a0\u201cIt has been a tumultuous year. I am thinking I am 75. I thought I was 74 but I was told I was 75.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1500386953281-1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNTpksWXptgCFY4W0wodhtEEMQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_Adsense_2_0__container__\">\u201cI have never been so sick, not even during the 30-month civil war that I was stumbling under farm of yams or cassava.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut this sickness\u2026I don\u2019t know, but I came out better. All those who saw me before said I look much better when I came back.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">Read Also:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"postTitle\">How I recovered from my most tumultuous health crisis \u2013 Buhari<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut I have explained it to the public that as a General, I used to give orders. But now, I take orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u200b\u201d\u200b The doctors told me to feed my stomach and sleep for longer hours. That is why I am looking much better,\u201d\u200e he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1500386953281-2\" data-google-query-id=\"CNXpksWXptgCFY4W0wodhtEEMQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_Adsense_3_0__container__\">Buhari said he appreciated the visit because he respects good neigbourliness both at individual and national levels.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIf you are in good terms with your neigbours, then you can make some savings for development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BUHARI-BIRTHDAY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17274\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BUHARI-BIRTHDAY-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BUHARI-BIRTHDAY-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BUHARI-BIRTHDAY.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari is about 85 year old, the president on Monday said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75. 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