The Federal Government has finally acknowledged Buhari is sick and not coming home yet. The is the import of the statement released yesterday by his office. Hitherto, same office has denied this fact for the past two weeks the President has been away in London, UK.
President Muhammadu Buhari has now requested for an extension of his medical leave of absence, deepening suspicions that his health is far worse than government officials want the public to believe.
President Buhari, 74-year-old, who had been dogged by speculation about whether he is physically fit for office even before he took power in May 2015, had been due to return to home yesterday Sunday February, 6 after taking more than two weeks’ leave for medical check ups in London, UK.
According to a statement release from is office yesterday, “President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly today, February 5, 2017, informing of his desire to extend his leave in order to complete and receive the results of a series of tests recommended by his doctors,”
The statement did not say for how long more the president wants to stay in the UK.
His senior media aid, Garba Shehu who declined to give details of the medical tests, told the Reuters news agency that the president was “not in any serious medical condition”.
