‘Buhari healthy in London’
THE leader of Nigeria’s Senate yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari was well after visiting him in London, trying to dispel rumours about the state of his health.
Bukola Saraki on Wednesday travelled to the British capital with the majority leader in the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and the speaker of the lower House of Representatives, Yakub Dogara.
It was the latest political delegation to visit 74-year-old Buhari at Nigeria’s official diplomatic residence, where he has been staying for nearly a month.
Saraki said in a statement on his Facebook page that Buhari was “healthy” and there was “no cause for alarm”.
The head of state was “cheerful and in good spirits”, he added.
In a separate series of Tweets, he added there was “no vacuum in government” and “all organs of government [are] fulfilling their mandate”.
A tweet on Buhari’s own Twitter account late on Wednesday said he appreciated the visit and thanked “Nigerians, Christians and Muslims alike, for their prayers and kind wishes for my health”.
Unlike some heads of state and government, Buhari does not initial tweets he writes himself. Photographs showed him meeting the politicians looking apparently relaxed. — AFP