The Nigerian Presidency has refuted suggestions that President Muhammdu Buhari is still sick, more than a week after he returned from a medical trip to London. Buhari traveled out of the country on March 30, spent two weeks on a routine medical checkup in the Bori Johnson-led nation and has since returned to Aso Rock Villa, Nigeria’s seat of power.
But Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said since President Buhari returned to the country many people have been calling him to know whether the nation’s number one citizen is alright. The presidency has refused to disclose the exact ailment Buhari is suffering from, even when his medical trip abroad has affected much of his presidency.
The presidential spokesman however said on his Facebook page there is no cause for alarm on Buhari’s health, noting that those wishing the president dead will not succeed. He debunked suggestion that the president is sick, adding “so from where did the pernicious rumour start on Sunday? From evil hearted people, who never love to see or hear any form of good. They are people who spend their days expecting the storm, and so they never enjoy the rainfall.
“From day one in office, they have hounded and hectored the President, but God simply laughs them to scorn. Who is man that says anything that it comes to pass, when God has not said so?” Adesina said.
The Nigerian leader has traveled, six times to London on medical trips since assuming power six years ago after he succeeded President Goodluck Jonathan
On June 6, 2016, Buhari left Nigeria for his first medical vacation. The president was away on a 10-day medical trip to London to treat an ear infection. He extended his trip by 3 days to rest. He returned from that journey on June 19, 2016.
