According to Sahara Reporters there is a
rift going on between aides to President Muhammadu Buhari and
the president's doctors.
Presidency sources have said that President
Muhammadu Buhari plans to return to Nigeria on Saturday after his test
results came in “fine.” However, Mr. Buhari’s return remains uncertain
as his team of doctors in the United Kingdom has yet to certify him fit
to take on the significant burden of his office.
The President He failed to return to Nigeria last week at the expiration of his
vacation, instead writing to the Senate to indicate he was extending his
leave in order to receive results from certain medical tests.
A variety of conflicting responses from the president's aides and associates,
including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, helped deepen the uncertainty
about Mr. Buhari’s status. Many Nigerians and other groups accused the
Presidency of hiding the true status of President Buhari’s health.
The situation was further worsened by fake
news websites that consistently churned out rumors about the
president’s hospitalization in a comatose state and even his death.
It was learnt that President Buhari remains in
frail health and requires treatment for an undisclosed ailment that
requires his absence from Nigeria for a prolonged time. However, owing
to the volatile political situation in Nigeria, some members of the
president’s inner circle have been persuading Mr. Buhari that he cannot
afford to take more time off.
Sources stated
that members of the political establishment surrounding Mr. Buhari are
persuading him to accept a piecemeal medical treatment plan rather than
adopt a plan recommended by his UK doctors that would take several
months for treatment and recovery. The president’s associates are
reportedly afraid that a prolonged tenure as acting President for Mr.
Osinbajo could significantly change the power equation against them.
President Buhari met two top All Progressives
Congress (APC) leaders in an undated photo released yesterday by the
Presidency. APC national leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and the chairman of
the party’s Board of Trustees, Bisi Akande, were seen in photos meeting
with a smiling President Buhari.
However, it is
rumored that several APC members, including Governor Nasir El-Rufai of
Kaduna State, who had booked their flights to London to see Mr. Buhari
were told to stay back in Nigeria and await further instructions from
the team of doctors in the UK who would have some say regarding whether
the president returns tomorrow or later.
One of
our sources disclosed that, even if President Buhari returns to Abuja
on Saturday, he would soon have to travel again to the UK to seek
further treatment.
Seun Egbegbe was arraigned today and charged with 36 counts of Advance
Fee Fraud in Lagos State.
