Top government officials bads President Muhammadu Buhari farewell as he leaves Nigeria for London where he would undergo a routine medical check-up.
The government officials gathering at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to witness Buhari’s departure included the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello; the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari; the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina; and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, among others.
Buhari embarked on the medical trip at a time members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have declared their intention to commence strike on April 1.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party says that the routine overseas check-up embarked upon by the President was a direct indictment of his regime’s failure to fix the healthcare system.
The party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja, alleged that the Buhari regime had wreaked the nation’s health institutions.
