Nigeria’s President Buhari on Dec. 2 denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumor that has circulated on social media for months.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 One theory widely aired on social media—and by some political opponents—was that he had been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril.
