President
Muhammadu Buhari’s medical vacation will on Monday (today) enter its fourth
week.
The
President has been away from the country for 24 days (16 working days) having
left for London, United Kingdom on January 19.
As
of the time he was leaving, Buhari had written the National Assembly that he
would proceed on a short vacation that would see him undergoing check-ups from
January 24 and would resume on February 6.
He
has since transmitted another letter in which he said he had decided to extend
the vacation because of the need for “a course of medications and further
appointments” with his doctors.
Throughout
the weekend, presidential aides and officials attached to the Protocol Unit of
the Presidential Villa, Abuja were put on standby on the President’s possible
return to the country.
Efforts
made by agitated State House correspondents for information on the arrangements
to receive the President on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport
also did not yield any result.
As
of the time of filing this report on Sunday evening, it was still not clear
when Buhari would return to the country.
His
wife, Aisha, had however on Saturday returned from Saudi Arabia where he
participated in Lesser Hajj.
Many
saw her return to the country as a prelude to the President’s arrival.
Amidst
various speculations on the state of health of the President, his handlers
including the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, had insisted that he is hale and
hearty.
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