Friday 10 March 2017

Buhari Lands in Nigeria.




The eminent President of Nigeria , Muhammadu Buhari has returned home after extended medical leave in the UK,
According  to a television report this morning,  Friday 10th March.
Buhari walked unaided from his plane after it landed at an air force base in the northern city of Kaduna. The former military ruler then boarded a waiting helicopter, state television showed.
The 74-year-old, who took power in May 2015, left Abuja on January 19 for treatment in Britain.

He had originally planned to stay 10 days but stayed longer to rest after consulting his doctors, deepening suspicions that his health was far worse than officials are publicly admitting.

 Nigerians so far has expressed their thoughts about his return. speaking about it, an anonymous Nigerian said "though we are very sympathetic towards sick leave, we were also concerned about how the country can run efficiently when the commander-in-chief is absent.

His return came as a surprise owning to the statement made on Thursday by his special adviser, Femi Adesina who said Buhari's "holiday" had been extended on doctors' recommendations for further testing and rest. It gave no details about the health of the president.
"President Buhari expresses appreciation to teeming Nigerians from across the country, and beyond, who had prayed fervently for him, and also sent their good wishes," the statement said, giving no medical details.
Earlier on Thursday, the presidency had published pictures of a smiling Buhari meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in Abuja House, part of the Nigerian High Commission in London.

No official pictures of Buhari's meetings in London had been posted since February 15.
The government had sought to allay concerns of a void at the helm of Africa's biggest economy and most populous country by stressing that Buhari, who was elected to power on a campaign that vowed to root out corruption, had given Vice President Yemi Osinbajo full powers as acting president during his leave.
Osinbajo, a lawyer, held in Buhari's absence cabinet meetings and finished work on an economic reform plan needed to secure a World Bank loan to help to plug a deficit caused by low oil revenues.

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