Nigerian President Says He's Very Much Alive and Not a Clone
- Separatist group spun conspiracy theory of a Buhari double
- Incumbent is fighting for another four-year term in February
Muhammadu Buhari
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has an unusual new campaign pitch: he isn’t dead.
In a Facebook post on Sunday following a meeting with Nigerians in Poland, Buhari said he’d been asked whether it really was him speaking to the group or a clone, given speculation he’d died last year when he was absent from the country on medical leave.