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Ordinarily, I wouldn't like to involve
myself in the nauseating debate about the rumoured cloning of President
Muhammadu Buhari and the imaginative Jibril Aminu of Sudan because it is
rubbish in the face of scientific realities.
As a Nigerian who bagged Ph.D degree in
Human Genetics in congenital malformations arising from chromosomal aberrations
in 1975 and had Post-Doctoral Research in mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, I
consider myself as competent to comment on the needless controversy.
For a 75 years old adult to be cloned, a
living cell must be obtained and subjected to some manipulations that will
convert it to totipotent cell. The totipotent cell will now undergo
embryological development that will produce a young human fetus.
It should be noted that for the fetus to
grow and become a replica to a 75 years adult, it will take 75 years to grow.
It must also be said that the
phynotypical presentation of a man is a product of interaction between his
genotype and the environment.
Therefore, for the clone to look like
the same man, it must be exposed to the exact environment for a period
equivalent to 75 years.
It is therefore ridiculous for anybody
to think Mr President has been cloned and that the person who is the President
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a clone from Sudan.
Instructively, I have had opportunity to
have one-on-one interactions with Mr President before he took ill and after his
recovery, there is nothing to suggest that Nigeria is governed by a clone of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
I will therefore appeal to Nigerians to
stop making insinuations and statements that ridicule our beloved country in
the global scientific world.
Prof. Ajayi Boroffice, OON is the
Senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District.
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