It is abominable to wish Buhari dead – Alaafin warns Nigerians

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has declared that it is totally wrong for anyone to wish President Muhammadu Buhari dead.

He said it was abominable to wish anyone created by God dead.

The Alaafin, who said he had been following the debate over the president’s health, noted that it was against African culture to “speculate the death of the sick.”

In a statement, he enjoined Nigerians to support the “unity and cohesion” between the President and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, saying it was not Yoruba practice or tradition to benefit from other’s misfortune.

The monarch said, “I have been following with great interest, although mixed feeling, comments that have been generated on social and conventional media on the state of health of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari.

“Let me state very clearly and unambiguously that in African culture, it is not proper to speculate the death of the sick. In Yoruba culture in particular, it is abomination not only to speculate but to wish a fellow mortal dead. Neither is it proper to mock the sick because only God determines the future of everybody.

“In the custom, belief and tradition of the Yoruba, death is not age determinant. That is why in Yoruba tradition, we always pray for the recovery of the sick, no matter his age.”