The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Monday, October 31, depart Abuja for London, the United Kingdom for a routine medical check-up.
The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this announcement via a tweet on his official Twitter handle, saying, Buhari is expected back in the country in the “second week of November.”
“President Buhari leaves for London on October 31, 2022, for a routine medical checkup. He returns to the country 2nd week of November 2022.”, he tweeted.
Monday’s trip will be one of several medical trips the President has embarked on since assuming office in 2015; spending at least 212 days outside the country.
With more than five different trips outside the country, particularly for health reasons, the President’s ‘medical checkup’ trips have stirred up concerns about his health status, with speculations in 2017 that he had died.
Recall, that earlier in the year, the President jetted out to London for a two-week medical trip which lasted 12 days.
Earlier, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had announced that Buhari would proceed to London from Kenya for “routine medical checks that will last for a maximum of two weeks.”
Earlier, Buhari was scheduled to visit London from Nairobi, Kenya where he was attending the United Nations Environmental Programme at 50.
He, however, returned to Nigeria on Friday, March 4, but departed for London on Sunday, March 6.
Adesina has defended Buhari’s medical trips abroad saying he “has used the same medical team for about 40 years.”
He also said it is advisable that the President stays with the team that has his medical history.
