President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria on Sunday, after spending almost two weeks in the United Kingdom for a routine medical check up.
Buhari travelled to London in 31 October to see his doctors.
He left shortly after he presided over an emergency meeting with security chiefs at the State House, Abuja.
According to a tweet by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari is expected back in the country in the “second week of November.”
The Special Adviser to the President on Digital Communications, Bashir Ahmad, announced Mr Buhari’s return in a tweet with photos of the president’s arrival in Abuja on Sunday.
The latest trip comes after Mr. Buhari’s earlier visit to London in March and June 2022, to see his physician of many years.
On 5 February, 2016, eight months after being sworn in, the President took his first medical trip to London, the United Kingdom, spending six days between 5 and 10 February.
Buhari’s second medical trip would follow four months later on 6 June, 2016.
He spent 10 days treating an ear infection after which he rested for three extra days before returning on 19 June, 2016.
On 19 January, 2017, the President embarked on his second-longest medical trip. Before leaving, however, he wrote to the Saraki-led Senate revealing his plan to travel to London on a 10-day vacation.
In the letter, Buhari said he would hand over to his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Though the medical holiday was due to commence on 23 January, 2017, Buhari left Abuja the same day.
On 10 March, 2017, he returned to the country. The trip lasted 50 days.
In May of the same year, barely two months after his last trip, the president departed for London for his longest medical pilgrimage lasting 104 days.
