Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria on Saturday after a three-month medical absence\u2014only to find his office infested with rats.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the 74-year-old Nigerian president, who has been in the U.K. since May 7\u00a0receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment, said that Buhari would be working from home while renovations were carried out at his office at Aso Rock, the Nigerian statehouse.
\n\u201cFollowing the three-month period of disuse, rodents have caused a lot of damage to the furniture and air conditioning units,\u201d Garba Shehu told Nigerian news site ThisDay.<\/p>\n
He explained that Buhari\u2019s home had an office annex and that the efficiency of his work would not be affected by the renovations.
\nShehu also said that the maintenance company responsible for the work had been asked to speed up the process, though he declined to put a date on when Buhari would return to the office.
\nAnother of Buhari\u2019s media advisers, Femi Adesina, said that renovations were needed in the regular office because \u201c103 days of absence affected it, there was some deterioration there.\u201d Adesina said that the office in Buhari\u2019s house was almost an identical replica of his main office and that President Buhari was not \u201cluxuriating at home\u201d as some media reports had suggested.<\/p>\n
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