President Muhammadu Buhari’s health condition has worsened and would be
required to be moved back to the United Kingdom to continue treatment, a
Presidential and family sources hinted pointblanknews.com.
The sources who would not want to be named said in the last two weeks the
president has been confined at home and rarely received visitors.
“We have advised that they take him back to the U.K for further treatment
and that is one of the consideration at the moment but I cannot say when a
final decision would be taken on that”, a family source said.
But the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that
President Muhammadu Buhari was absent at Wednesday’s meeting of the
Federal Executive Council, FEC, because he was still resting.
The president failed to preside over the weekly cabinet meeting for the
second time in a row.
The Last FEC meeting was held on April 13 and Mr. Mohammed had said that
Mr. Buhari asked his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, to preside over the meeting
because he was attending to other issues.
The meeting was canceled last week with presidential spokespersons saying
the cancellation was as a result of the Easter holidays which did not
allow ministers prepare their memos for presentation to the Council early
enough.
Addressing State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting on
Wednesday, Mr. Mohammed said the president “asked that he should be
allowed to rest and the vice president should preside.”
The minister also said Mr. Osinbajo will meet with Mr. Buhari later in the
day at the president’s official residence.