President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday depart Nigeria for an official trip to Paris, the France capital, EKO HOT BLOG has gathered.
It was gathered from top sources that Buhari would be in Paris for at least four days, where he has also been scheduled to meet his doctor.
“Buhari will be heading to Paris for four days.”
He was planning to go to Kampala (Uganda) and travel to London, the United Kingdom, to see his doctors but they opted to meet him in Paris. He will be travelling on Saturday,” a source disclosed.
The President had earlier planned to attend the inauguration of Uganda’s tight-fist dictator, Yoweri Museveni, and from there visit the UK for treatment.
According to SaharaReporters, the plan was later shelved and the decision to send Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to Uganda to represent Buhari was made at the last minute when it appeared that the UK trip was not feasible.
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Top presidency sources revealed that the President’s health, particularly his dementia, had deteriorated recently, and he was incoherent at the security chiefs’ meetings in the last two weeks.
“Buhari had wanted to travel to go for Museveni’s inauguration in Uganda and now use the opportunity to go to London but they changed the plans last minute and sent Osinbajo,” a top source had revealed.
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According to a release from the State House, Osinbajo would be joining several other Heads of State and Government for the swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, May 12, at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala, the nation’s capital city.
Osinbajo, who also participated at the resumed National Security Council meeting presided over by the President at the Presidential Villa, later traveled to Lagos State, where he attended another function.
Since he assumed office on May 29, 2015, President Buhari has embarked on medical trips abroad at least five times, covering a period of no fewer than 170 days of the five years he had been in power.
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