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President Buhari urged to take medical leave
Nigeria’s ailing President Muhammadu Buhari, who had nearly two month’s medical treatment in Britain earlierthis year, should take medical leave immediately, civil society leaders have said in an open letter.
The 74-year-old president returned home in March and said he would need more rest and health tests. Details of his medical condition were not disclosed.
Mr Buhari took about seven weeks of medical leave in January, and flew to the UK for treatment. When he returned home in March, he said he had never been so ill in his life.
In a letter titled “President Buhari should take medical leave immediately”, a group of political activists noted his absence from the last two weekly cabinet meetings and speculation about his ability to run Africa’s most populous nation and biggest economy.
“We are compelled to advise him to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay,” they said in the letter dated May 1.
The letter was signed by 13 civil society leaders including human rights lawyer Femi Falana and Jibrin Ibrahim, an academic at a think-tank based in the capital Abuja.
The president had not been seen in public for the last week, and his absence from the cabinet meetings, as well as the weekly Friday Muslim prayers, “has fuelled further speculation and rumours” about his medical condition, the group of 13 Nigerians said in a statement.
Femi Adesina, one of Buhari’s spokesmen, declined to comment on the letter. He also said Buhari was spending most of his time in his private residence, which is equipped as an office, adding that he had gone through the worst period of his recovery in London.
Garba Shehu, another presidency spokesman, last week said Buhari received daily briefings on activities of government and met his vice president regularly.
