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After 49 days in UK, Buhari returns Friday
After spending 49 days in the United Kingdom, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected back in the country tomorrow, Friday March 10, 2017.
This was stated in a release by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday night.
“The President left the country on January 19, 2017 for a vacation, during which he had routine medical check-ups. The holiday was extended based on doctors’ recommendation for further tests and rest,” he noted in the statement.
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He further said that 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.
Few days after President Buhari traveled to the UK, issues over his health dominated public discoirse in Nigeria with the internet saturated with rumours of his death.
Several efforts by the presidency and phone calls put to some individuals by President Buhari himself to douse such rumours did little to prove he was alive.
Many Nigerians only became convinced that the ailing President was still alive following pictures showing him and some top ranking state officials and his party leaders who visited him in London.
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Justin Welby, were among those who visited and took pictures with him.
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Margret Dickson
March 10, 2017 at 7:23 am
Today is Friday na, we shall see if he’d be in the country before the Jumu’ah. We are waiting Mr President.
Joy Madu
March 11, 2017 at 4:35 am
you see if i call you mumu now you will say am insulting you. You are still waiting when your father buhari is back.Anyway Jumu’ah or no Jumu’ah our president is back
Animashaun Ayodeji
March 10, 2017 at 7:50 am
The presidency has kept Nigerians in the dark about Buhari’s health, by the time he returns today, I hope Mr President will attend to these questions himself. He owes Nigerians some explanations on why he decided to use 50 days in the UK on medical grounds and tell us what his health condition really is.
Johnson Amadi
March 10, 2017 at 7:56 am
He owes nobody explanation regarding his choices, it’s his health, he can choose to speak about It or keep mum. Don’t expect him to stand in front of the microphone to start saying, he had this, he treated this and that, it will never happen! Just be thankful whenever you hear he has finally returned to the country.
Balarabe musa
March 10, 2017 at 8:56 am
The man is back and better and now we can rejoice once again. Looking so fit and rumours of his health is dispersed in a thin air.
yanju omotodun
March 10, 2017 at 9:22 am
It’s worth celebrating, 50 hearty cheers to our 50 days runaway president. Welcome back to Nigeria of stress, erratic power supply, insecurity and lots more. I hope all these situations you will confront again won’t make you runaway again to the UK
JOHNSON PETER
March 10, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Something is wrong with you, what is special about him coming back, I trust him, he won’t support any wastage on celebrating his coming back.
Roland Uchendu Pele
March 10, 2017 at 9:52 am
This President Buhari amazes me, I must say. Well, I wish him goodluck as a fellow human.