The President, Muhammadu Buhari, returned to Abuja on Sunday after a routine two-week medical check-up in London.
Buhari’s plane just touched down at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Buhari left for London on October 31, 2022, after attending a security council meeting in Owerri, Imo State, as well as a Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers.
Buhari was expected to return to the country in the “second week of November,” according to the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.
The trip was one of several medical trips taken by the President since taking office in 2015, with at least 212 days spent abroad.
The President took his first medical trip to London, the United Kingdom, on February 5, 2016, eight months after being sworn in. He spent six days there between February 5 and February 10, 2016.
Buhari’s second medical trip would take place on June 6, 2016, four months later.
He treated an ear infection for ten days, then rested for three days before returning on June 19, 2016.
The President left on his second-longest medical trip on January 19, 2017. However, before departing, he informed the Saraki-led Senate of his intention to take a 10-day vacation in London.
Buhari stated in the letter that he would hand over to his Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Despite the fact that the medical leave was supposed to begin on January 23, 2017, Buhari left Abuja on the same day.
He returned to the country on March 10, 2017. The journey lasted 50 days.
In May of the same year, just two months after his previous trip, the president left for London on his 104-day medical pilgrimage.
