President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria at around 4.am on
Friday, March 10 after an extended medical leave in London
According to This Day, the president landed in
Kaduna airport after which he was choppered to Aso Rock Villa after left the
country on January on a 10-day vacation.
The president was expected back into the
country at the end of the month but sent another letter to the National
Assembly informing of his decision to extend his vacation citing medical
reasons.
His indefinite vacation fuelled speculation
about the state of his health with rumours being spread that he was dead
although this was refuted many times by his media aides, Garba Shehu and Femi
Adeshina.
There was also speculation that the president could remain in the UK for four months due
to medical complication although the Senate president, Bukola Saraki led a
three-man delegation of himself, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawani to
meet Buhari in London.
Saraki insisted after meeting the president
that he was hale and hearty and said he was in his usual high spirit.
Apart from the delegation led by Saraki, the
president also received high-profile visitors at the Abuja House in London
including All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande.
His wife, Aisha also paid him a visit to confirm to Nigerians
that he was hale and hearty as well as Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun.
The last visitor he received before his return to Nigeria was Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of
Canterbury who visited on Thursday, March 9.
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