77 Days After, Buhari Set To Return From UK

Indications emerged Sunday that President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical sojourn in to the United Kingdom is about to end as his doctors have given him the all clear to return back to Nigeria.

The WHISTLER learnt from Presidency sources that Buhari was given a 10-day observation window by his medical team which elapsed on Friday.

With the president “amazing turnaround,” one of the sources said the “president should be expected back in the country in a matter of days.”

President Buhari travelled on May 7 for the second time in 2017 for an undisclosed ailment. He spent 49 days during the first medical vacation.

Presidential aide, Mr. Femi Adesina, had in an article, ‘PMB and the descendants of Shimei,’ hinted of the president’s return, noting that those who had wished Buhari evil will bury their heads in shame as he returns.

“President Buhari has been indisposed since the beginning of the year. It is human, and presidents, despite their elevated status, remain human,” Adesina wrote.

“If there is anybody who considers himself 100 percent healthy, or who bears what William Shakespeare calls ‘a charmed life’, let that person stand up to be identified. All mortals are doomed to sickness, they can recover, and they can die.

“That is the truth that has been internalised by millions of people praying for the recovery of our President. And that is where the shallowness, vacuousness, and hollowness of people who wish the President dead, and carry unfounded rumours, is on stark display.

“Filthy dreamers. They speak evil of dignities, and despise dominion. But we forgive them, for they know not what they do. When President Buhari returns (as God would make him do) where would they hide their faces? In shame.”

Prior to this time, Acting President Yyemi Osinbajo had visited Buhari in London on July to “confer with him on matters of State,” the Presidency had said of the brief visit about two weeks ago.

On returning from the trip, the Acting President said the president: “is in high spirit and is doing very well and recuperating.”

Since his return to London, Nigerians have been divided on the issue with one group calling for his resignation, while the other insist he stays on having transmitted power to Osinbajo.a