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Nigeria’s Buhari to spend 10-day vacation in London: aide
ABUJA, Aug 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will
begin a 10-day vacation in London from Friday, his office said, without
disclosing whether he will also see his doctor there.
“While the president is on vacation, Vice President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo will be in acting capacity. President Buhari will be in London for
the holiday,” presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement.
He said the parliament had been notified about the president’s trip, his
latest of several to the British capital in recent months.
In May, the Nigerian leader was in London for three days for medical
reasons, having spent some five months last year receiving treatment for an
undisclosed ailment.
The development is bound to stir fresh doubts about the health of the
75-year-old retired general and his ability to campaign for re-election at
polls scheduled for February.
Nigeria’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has always
insisted Buhari is unwell and unfit to govern, but his aides have dismissed
the claims.
The health of the president is a sensitive issue in Nigeria following
the death in office in 2010 of then president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, which
followed months of treatment abroad and sparked political turmoil.
BSS/AFP/IJ/1724 hrs