By BASHIR ADEFAKA
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived the country from the United Kingdom after his two-week medical vacation in the Queen’s country.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this via his social media handle Thursday evening with pictorial presentations of the arrival ceremony.
In their tweets and Facebook posts, Social and Digital Media Aides to the President, Lauretta Onochie and Bashir Ahmad, also respectively disclosed the President’s arrival looking fresher and hearty.
Onochie said: “President Buhari has returned to Abuja after a Private trip for medical checkup in the United Kingdom on 15th April 2021. Welcome home Sir,” she said.
Ahmad said: “President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja this afternoon, after a private trip to London, the United Kingdom.”
Before his departure, the Presidency had explained that Buhari’s travel to the UK was not on an emergency case and that the Nigerian leader was not sick, dousing insinuations from critics who raised the alarm that the 78-year-old was not feeling well.
“It is a routine medical check-up; the President has undertaken this with a set of doctors that he has retained over many years,” said Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity.
He also explained that Buhari did not transmit power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, noting that the President will not be away for so long to contravene the law.
“The requirement of the law is that the President is going to be absent in the country for 21 days and more, then that transmission is warranted. In this particular instance, it is not warranted,” the presidential aide said when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
The DEFENDER reports that President Buhari, who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja from London, had all the Service Chiefs including the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Usman Alkali Baba, Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Alhaji Yusuf Bichi, among others on ground to receive him.
Also on ground to receive the President were his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Malam Muhammad Bello.
The Service Chiefs salute as the President’s shopper taxis.
Malam Muhammad Bello, the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, greets President Muhammadu Buhari upon his arrival.
