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Nigeria President Buhari Leaves for Routine Medical Check-up in UK Tuesday

The presidency has announced that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to the United Kingdom on Tuesday for medical check-up.

Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s media aide in a statement on Monday said the Nigerian leader “will meet with Security Chiefs first in the morning, after which he embarks on the journey”.

“He is due back in the country during the second week of April, 2021.”

In the six year of the Nigerian leader’s stay in office, Mr Buhari has spent over 150 days in the UK where he sought medical care.

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