Nigeria’s ailing
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday received a delegation of the All
Progressives Congress leadership in London, the Nigerian presidency said in a
Twitter message accompanied by a photo of the president with the party members.
The photo
was the president’s first image to be shared publicly since he left the country
on May 7.
The
delegation hosted to lunch included APC’s national chairman John Odigie-Oyegun,
Governors Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Yahaya Bello (Kogi)
and Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike
Amaechi.
The visit of the APC leaders to the president
came two weeks after the country’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo’s.
No details
were given about the meeting but it is believed to be the first face-to-face
encounter between Nigeria’s two most senior politicians in more than two
months.
Buhari has
spent most of this year in London receiving treatment for an unspecified
medical condition. He left for London for a medical check-up on May 7, leaving
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to lead the country.
Buhari
would only return to Nigeria “as soon as his doctors give the go-ahead,” the
presidency insisted.
He had
earlier left Nigeria on January 19 for London to “undergo routine medical
check-ups” during a short holiday. He only returned on March 10 after an
extended period of medical treatment.
Source: - The Guardian | July 23, 2017
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