Buhari to stay longer in UK to attend to ailing health

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari will still spend longer time in the United Kingdom to attend to his ailing health challenge.

Presidential spokesman and Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina said in a statement on Tuesday that the test carried out by the president showed that he needed longer rest.

“During his normal annual checkup, tests showed he needed a longer period of rest, necessitating the President staying longer than originally planned,” Adesina said.

According to the statement, President Muhammadu Buhari thanked millions of Nigerians who had been sending good wishes and praying for his health and well-being in mosques and churches throughout the country.

“The President is immensely grateful for the prayers, show of love and concern. President Buhari wishes to reassure Nigerians that there is no cause for worry,” he said.

Speaking later to the media in Abuja, Adesina said: “What we have just said is what I will want us to believe. The President said he needs to rest further. The same President that communicated that to us, when it is time for him to come, he will also communicate to us.”

He said since he has added that there is no cause to worry, Nigerians should believe the President.

He said, “He (the President) is the one who owns his body and there is nobody who will know his body more than him and he says no cause to worry.

“It makes sense to say that maybe from the results of the tests, further rest had been recommended. The statement did not say how long the rest will last.

“I speak for somebody, I do not speak for myself. So it is what he tells me to say that I say and the statement transmitted to me is that the President needs to rest for some further time.”

When asked if there is any possibility for the President to speak to Nigerians directly, Adesina said, “What he has just done (the statement) is to speak to Nigerians.”

-Kazeeem Ugbodaga