Fact-Check: Rodent Once Disrupt Obama’s Press Conference | The Precision

On Tuesday, Nigerians were shocked to hear that rodents invaded President Muhammadu Buhari’s office while he was in the UK.

Garba
Shehu, Buhari’s spokesman, was quoted to have said: “Following the
three months period of disuse, rodents have caused a lot of damage to
the furniture and the air conditioning units.”

A “national
embarrassment”, some say — but wait. On May 21, 2010, a rodent “joined”
former US President Barack Obama on the podium while he was addressing a
press conference just opposite the Oval office in America’s seat of
power.

He had just begun speaking when the rodent dashed out of the bush to his right, just outside the office.

Having
successfully upstaged Obama, the intruder scurried past the podium
where the president was standing and, apparently aware of the darting
eyes and shutter sounds, hurried off towards another set of bushes to
the president’s left.

But Obama did not seem to notice a bit. He had continued with his speech before returning to the oval office.

While some of the onlookers had thought it to be a rat, others believed it was a vole on some sort of sole adventure.

“I would partially rule out rat,” Russell Link, a wildlife biologist told Daily Mail.

“That’s due to the lack of a tail that is typically equal to body length. My suspicion is it’s a vole.” (TheCable)

Source: The Precision