By ‘Dotun Akintomide
Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday raised fresh hope that President Muhammadu Buhari who has been on medical vacation in a London hospital was recuperating faster and will return to Nigeria very soon, an assurance which further confirms The New Diplomat‘s earlier reports on the President’s health condition.
He said this while speaking with state house correspondents in Abuja hours after his return from London.
Though, Osinbajo refused to give a deadline when asked to say exactly when the President will be back, but he raised hope that Buhari will be back sooner than expected.
“No no. Deadlines aren’t a very good thing but as I said he is recuperating fast we expecting him very shortly. Much sooner perhaps than you will expect.”
Earlier in the day, The New Diplomat reports the meeting became necessary to proffer way forward on various issues threatening to shut down the government at the centre, as well as reassure Nigerians on the President’s safe return to the country soon, as revealed by a top source at the presidency.
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Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo had left to London on Tuesday after holding Presidential Quarterly Business Forum with the private sector at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.
After the brief meeting with the county’s number one citizen, the Acting President returned back to Nigeria to preside over the Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting.
Speaking further on the outcome of his meeting with the President, Prof. Osinbajo said the meeting was fruitful as he was able to see Buhari face to face and that he briefed the recuperating President on the activities in the country He said the President will soon come back to the country.
“Well, first as you know I went to see him, I went to check up on him find out how he was doing. I had of course been speaking on the phone and I thought it will be a good thing to go and see him and you know generally check up on how he was doing and also to brief him on developments back at home.
“So we had a very good time, we had a very good conversation on wide ranging issues and he is in very good spirit, he is recuperating very quickly and he is doing very well.”
On the state of health of Mr. President he said, “Well, as I have said he is in very high spirit, he is recuperating very well and we had very long conversation, we spoke for well over an hour and his humor is all there. He is doing well and he is recuperating fast.”
“I think very very shortly. Very shortly. I think we should really expect him back very shortly. Like I said he is recuperating very fast and he is doing very very well.”
Reacting to questions on the report of the suspended SGF and NIA DG, Osinbajo replied, saying the high level discussions with Mr. President touched on “Wide ranging issues, I really can’t go into specifics of all of the discussions we had.”
However, he said there were no discussions regarding the swearing in of the two ministers denied confirmation by the Senate. “No. We didn’t discuss swearing in or anything like that. We didn’t discuss when they will be sworn in.”
He said he is not in position to say exactly when they will be sworn in.
“Well, I’m not in a position to say exactly, I don’t have a date in mind but I’m sure very very soon we will do that.”
