President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for London where he is scheduled to meet with his doctors.
The presidential aircraft conveying the president and few of his aides took-off from the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at 3.20 p.m.
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Bello; the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari were among those at the airport to bid the president farewell.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had on Monday in a statement said President Buhari would on Tuesday begin a four-day medical trip to the UK.
He said “in the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back from Washington last week, the president had a meeting with his doctor.
“The doctor requested the president to return for a meeting which he agreed to do.”
Shehu added that the president, who would return on May 12, would undertake a two-day visit to Jigawa, which was postponed because of the All Progressives Congress’s Ward Congresses.
He said the visit would last between May 14 and May 15.
Before leaving Abuja on Tuesday, May 8, Buhari received Letters of Credence from ambassadors of Netherlands, Republic of Botswana and Lebanon to Nigeria
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