Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is recuperating fast and is expected to be back in the country anytime soon, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo told reporters at the State House on Wednesday after he returned from London.
President Buhari has been in London for sixty-six days receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The Presidency is yet to release any official photograph or video of the visit and the meeting between the two of them as the President has not been seen since his departure on May 7th.
This is his second medical vacation to London in the year. Leaving the country in January this year, Buhari spent 49 days before returning to the country on March 10th. On his return, Buhari disclosed that he had never been this ill through his life and had hinted that he would return to London for further treatment.
The Acting President who spoke to reporters before proceeding to preside over the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja said also said President Buhari is was in very high spirit when they met on Tuesday and discussed for over an hour.
“Well, first as you know I went to see him, I went to check up on him find out how he was doing. I had of course been speaking on the phone and I thought it will be a good thing to go and see him and you know generally check up on how he was doing and also to brief him on developments back at home.
“So we had a very good time, we had a very good conversation on wide-ranging issues and he is in very good spirit, he is recuperating very quickly and he is doing very well.
“Well, as I have said he is in very high spirit, he is recuperating very well and we had very long conversation, we spoke for well over an hour and his humor is all there. He is doing well and he is recuperating fast.
On When the President is due to return to the country the Acting President said “I think very very shortly. Very shortly. I think we should really expect him back very shortly. Like I said he is recuperating very fast and he is doing very very well” he said.
He however, added that there was no deadline especially in reference to the 90 days peddled.
“No no. Deadlines aren’t a very good thing but as I said he is recuperating fast we expecting him very shortly. Much sooner than you will expect” he added.
Osinbajo also told the reporters that they discussed a wide range of issues but declined to go into specifics.
“Wide-ranging issues I really can’t go into specifics of all of the discussions we had” he said adding that they did not discuss the swearing of ministers or anything like that.
On when the ministers already screened by the National Assembly will be sworn in Osinbajo said he had no date in mind “but I’m sure very very soon we will do that”.
Osinbajo returned to Nigeria early Wednesday morning.
