The Nigerian President Publicly Denies That He Died and Was Replaced By A Clone...Which Is Exactly What A Clone Would Say

THE GUARDIAN - Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has denied claims that he had died and was replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months.

Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed illness. One theory widely aired on social media – and by some political opponents – was that he had been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril.

No evidence has been presented, but videos making the claim have been viewed thousands of times on YouTube and Facebook.

“It’s the real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,” Buhari told Nigerians in a town hall session in Poland on Sunday, where he was attending a conference, when asked about Jubril.

You thought American politics were bad with all the muckraking and negative ads and cutthroat strategy?  How about Nigerian politicians spreading the rumor that the president is dead and the guy you see up there is a clone?  Effectively too!  People believe it.  To the point the guy had to actually come out and publicly say “I am not a clone.”

Imagine being the president of a country and having to shoot off an email like this:

The presidency circulated Buhari’s comments in an emailed statement entitled “It’s Real Me, President Buhari Responds to Cloning Allegation”.

Of course…”I Am Not A Clone” is exactly what a clone would say.  That’s clone 101.  I’m not well read enough on the psychology of clones but I would imagine that a clone doesn’t know it’s a clone?  It’s really an existentialist question at the core of what it means to be human.  But from what we know I would think that clone is actually telling the truth, because he’s not aware that he is a clone, and the Clone President is dictating Nigerian policy with his Clone Brain. I don’t know how you would even determine he is in fact not a clone.  I’m not sure Nigerian scientists have the training to figure something like that out.  So it seems like Nigeria is stuck with a clone president for the foreseeable future, just like we are stuck with a clone Avril Lavigne.  Which, we’ve learned, is just as good.