Buhari recovering, but return still indefinite –Oyegun

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Friday announced that ailing President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering quickly.

He however explained that he will remain in London until such a time his doctors pronounce him fit to return to the country.

Oyegun’s declaration is coming on the heels of claims by the Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose earlier in the week that the president does not only have impaired voice as some have alleged, but now on life support.

Odigie-Oyegun spoke with newsmen on the state of Buhari’s health in Abuja, after a meeting between the party`s National Working Committee (NWC) and state governors elected on the party’s platform.

He said regarding Fayose’s claim that responding to such talk will only amount to dignifying the governor.

He said, “We are glad to inform you that President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering in a very robust manner. We hope he takes it easy and when he comes back, I have no doubt at all that we will have a new and active period of activities.

“If I respond (to Fayose), I will be dignifying him. At the appropriate time, people will answer him; at the appropriate level; at the appropriate time. He is in a different world altogether.’’

Explaining that only the president’s doctors abroad could decide when he would be fit to return to the country, Odigie-Oyegun said that the party leadership’s confidence in President Buhari remains intact.

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He said issues discussed at their meeting this Friday were the ongoing agitation for restructuring and inciting utterances coming from different parts of the country, adding, that such statements are not good for the “nation`s health and have to be stopped”.

The APC chairman added that the party insists on its earlier position on the restructuring of the country as clearly stated in its manifesto.

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