Word was rife in Abuja that President Bola Tinubu deployed Vice President Kashim Shettima to visit former President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Monday.
The visit, according to a decent source, is to determine the former president’s state of health after he was reported to have been ill for a while, but believed to be recuperating.
Stanley Nkwocha, Shettima’s media aide, confirmed that his principal visited London but said he was unable to comment on the purpose as he was not privy to the vice-president’s itinerary.
Shettima had been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, to attend the official launch of the East African country’s Green Legacy Initiative, GLI.
The Vice President flew Sunday night from Addis Ababa and arrived in London on Monday before proceeding to an unnamed hospital to deliver Tinubu’s message to Buhari, the sources said.
The media reported that former President Muhammadu Buhari had been undergoing medical treatment in London since his arrival in April.
According to multiple family sources, what was planned to be a routine medical check-up ballooned into a full-scale admission after the former president took ill.
Although the nature of the sickness and the name of the hospital where he is undergoing treatment are still being kept under wraps by family members, Buhari’s longtime spokesperson, Garba Shehu, confirmed the development, but assured Nigerians that the former president is responding well to treatment.
“Following your inquiry, I wish to state as follows: It is true that the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, is unwell. He has been receiving treatment in the UK.
