Nigeria: President Buhari's Age Controversy , a National Embarrassment, Says PDP

26 December 2017

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday labelled as a "national disgrace" the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari, that he had all the while believed he was 74 this year until told his age was 75 this year.

The party in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Prince Diran Odeyemi in Osogbo Tuesday, said many Nigerians and even the global community must have been taken aback that a 21st century leader of a country like Nigeria did not know his real year of birth.

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