Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, has argued the yearly medical trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to London did not start today.
Shehu, who said this on Tuesday at the departure wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, just after his principal departed the country for London for medical check-up said the medical trip has been a routine for Buhari even before he came into office as Nigeria’s president in 2015.
He said, “The President is looking at the window of opportunity that has opened with the Easter Holiday. It’s a much relaxed period for everyone –Good Friday, Easter Monday, National Holidays. Then, he will use that period for his regular medical check-up.
“This is something he has done for so many years even before he came to office. Every year, he had appointment with his doctors and he went there to do it. The only anomaly this time around is that COVID prevented this kind of thing to hold in 2020. So, he has lost some period. The last time he was there was one and half years back.”
However, Buhari is expected to see a doctor during his stay in the UK and he is due to be back in the country in the second week of April.
The President is embarking on the medical trip at a time members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have declared their intention to commence a strike on April 1.
