President Muhammadu Buhari was last night on his way to London for another round of medical treatment for his yet undisclosed ailment.
No duration has been given for the medical vacation. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, gave notice of the trip on his twitter handle last night at about 8.25 p.m., saying “PMB travels tonight for medical follow-up.
Length of stay to be determined by London doctors. Govt to function normally under VP.” The President himself subsequently confirmed his departure and his notification of the trip to the National Assembly in a series of tweets from his personal twitter handle.
The President’s return to London will be his fourth medical vacation to the United Kingdom since his inauguration on May 29, 2015. He returned from his last trip to the United Kingdom on March 10, 2017, which lasted 49 days, a trip that caused anxiety among many Nigerians following extension of the trip initially planned for ten days.
Before he departed, the President assured that there was no cause for anxiety concerning the ship of state, saying that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo will take charge of government in his absence.
