The
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, on Saturday 10th
November, 2018 held what the Pro-Biafran group termed a “Special broadcast” in
Israel.
During
the broadcast which lasted for about 3hours, Nnamdi Kanu attempted to prove
that the present president of Nigeria is an Impostor, as he (Nnamdi Kanu)
claims that the real Muhammadu Buhari is
dead.
Nnamdi
Kanu also said that the US president Donald Trump had earlier given a hint when
he said: “I do not want to see that lifeless person again”.
The
Separatist leader alleged that the present president of Nigeria is a Sudanese
impostor named Jubril, who was recruited by Abba Kyari, the Chief of staff to
the president, Muhammadu Buhari.
Nnamdi
Kanu claims that Jubril had undergone surgery inorder to pose as Muhammadu
Buhari.
He
also claims that the real Muhammadu Buhari died on the 27th of January 2018,
after undergoing a complicated brain surgery.
Amongst
the clues he gave to prove that the present president is an impostor includes:
Jubril
is about 8 inches shorter than Buhari.
Jubril
cannot speak Fulfulde the indigenous language of the Fulani’s.
Jubril’s
hairline hasn’t receded unlike that of Buhari.
He
hasn’t addressed any live conference since his return from his sick bed.
Since
the return of the president, Aisha Buhari is not seen anywhere around her
supposed husband.
Aisha
Buhari once told Nigerians not to vote Buhari for a second term.
Suddenly
Buhari doesn’t fall sick anymore and has not gone for medical examination after
he had a brain surgery (recall that the president had brain tumour that was
affecting his hearing).
“How
can someone who had undergone such a complicated procedure, had a sizeable
chunk of his brain removed not require any clinical follow up or examination”
Nnamdi Kanu said.Nnamdi Kanu also claims that the ears of Jubril doesn’t look
like that of Buhari since they probably forgot to ‘extend silicone’ to the
ears.
For
decades, rumors circulated in Russia that Joseph Stalin had a “twin” who replaced
him during certain situations.
Decades
after Stalin’s death, the decoy finally decided to talk. Felix Dadaev, a former
dancer and juggler, had been ordered to work to the Kremlin as Stalin’s body
double. For more than half a century, Dadaev remained silent, fearing a death
sentence should he dare to open his mouth. But in 2008, at the age of 88, and
with the apparent approval of the Putin regime, he finally came forward to
write his autobiography. It explains that he was one of four men employed to
impersonate the supreme leader, taking his place in motorcades, at rallies, on
newsreel footage etc.
Dadaev
was born in the Caucasian highlands of Dagestan and when his family moved to
Grozny, in Chechnya, he began taking ballet lessons. When the Second World War
started, he was required to fight and was so badly injured during the Soviet
liberation of Grozny in 1942 that his family was told he had been killed. He
was one of seven casualties delivered to a hospital, but he and another man were
still alive. Fortunately, he survived, though that “death” was the start of a
strange double life. Soon his resemblance to 60-year-old Stalin (which got him
teased in school) caught the eye of Soviet intelligence agents, who started
using him to save the real Stalin from assassination plots and tedious public
ceremonies.
Just
into his 20s, Dadaev was a great deal younger than Stalin, but make-up and the
strain of war meant that he could pass for the 60-year-old. “We had all
experienced so much suffering that I looked much older than I was”, Dadaev
said. Trained at the personal request of Stalin, Dadaev attended rallies and
meetings across the Soviet Union wearing the leader’s trademark Red Army cap
and heavy overcoat encrusted with medals. He watched movies and speeches of
Stalin to perfect the mimicry of his movement and intonation. Some say that
Dadaev, like other Stalin’s body doubles, was trained by Alexei Diky, an actor
who played the role of Stalin in propaganda films.
In
an age before media dominated, he didn’t have to mimic perfectly Stalin’s vocal
inflections, just his look and mannerisms. He pulled it off so well even
Stalin’s closest comrades couldn’t spot the imposter. “By the time my make-up
and training were complete, I was like him in every way, except perhaps my ears.
They were too small”.
Another
Stalin’s body double was a man identified only as “Rashid”. Rashid so closely
resembled the dictator that when he joined the army he was dismissed almost
immediately. Even his facial scars nearly matched the Soviet leader’s pockmarks
from a bout with smallpox. He spent two years studying with Alexei Dikiy.
Rashid claimed there were other Stalin lookalikes employed by the NKVD
(predecessor of KGB), although he never met any. He claimed to have heard of
another Stalin double who was hired to live in the dictator’s dacha outside of
Moscow in the late 1940s and 1950s when Stalin was dying. After Stalin’s death
in 1953, Rashid moved to a provincial city and shaved off his mustache and
gradually became bald. Yet even then the resemblance proved so striking that he
often received stares on the street.
So
the burgeoning popular notion that a certain Jibril from Sudan is being fronted
as President Buhari of Nigeria has precedents in history and thus carries a
strong possibility that such could well be the case.
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