The President on Saturday denied that President Muhammadu Buhari was at any time banned from entering the United States of America.
The claim was made by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in an interview with online newspaper, The Boss.
Abubakar said Buhari was banned from America for about 15 years based on religious considerations.
But reacting to the claim, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said at no time was Buhari barred from the US.
Adesina described the claim by Abubakar as “fictive concoction being passed off as truth”.
He said: “At no time was President Buhari, as a private person, ever forbidden from entering any country in the world.
“Rather, the rest of the world has always held Muhammadu Buhari as a man of sterling qualities, strong on integrity, transparency and accountability.
“The same testimony is still borne of the Nigerian President by many world leaders today.
“It is curious that former VP Abubakar had been asked why he had not visited America for over a decade, something that had been a stubborn fact dogging his footsteps.
“Instead of answering directly, he begged the question, saying Buhari also had been disallowed from entering the same country for 15 years, before becoming President.
“We hereby make it resoundingly clear that what the former Vice President said only exists in the realm of his imagination.
“If he has issues to settle with American authorities, he should do so, rather than clutch at a straw.”
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