{"id":69595,"date":"2025-07-03T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69595"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:52:18","slug":"buhari-unwell-but-not-in-icu-aide-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/buhari-unwell-but-not-in-icu-aide-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Unwell but Not in ICU, Aide Clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bashir Ahmad, former President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s digital media aide, has debunked media reports claiming that the ex-president is critically ill and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Thursday, Ahmad confirmed that Buhari is indeed unwell and receiving medical attention but stressed that his condition is stable and not as dire as widely speculated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that former President Buhari is unwell and is currently receiving medical attention,\u201d Ahmad stated. \u201cHowever, contrary to the exaggerated claims circulating in the media, he is stable and responding well to treatment, and we are optimistic about his full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad also expressed gratitude to Nigerians and Buhari\u2019s supporters for their concern and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the outpouring of prayers and goodwill from his supporters and well-wishers around the world. We continue to pray for his complete and speedy recovery. Thank you!\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Bashir Ahmad, former President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s digital media aide, has debunked media reports claiming that the ex-president is critically ill and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In a statement issued on Thursday, Ahmad confirmed that Buhari is indeed unwell and receiving medical attention but stressed that his condition is stable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69597,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69595\/revisions\/69597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}