Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, on Friday recalled his principal’s lengthy United Kingdom (UK) medical treatment in 2017.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Buhari left for London on May 7 2017 and returned in August of that year.
His prolonged absence caused tensions back home where calls grew for him to either return or resign.
Although the nature of his illness was never officially disclosed, Adesina, on Friday, said it was “debilitating”.
“Our President is 80 years old, don’t forget. And he does all these at a sprint. We that are far younger struggle to catch up with him.
“On Thursday, after going to bed around 3 am, on return from Senegal, I refused to get out of bed till my colleagues came to evacuate me, saying the President was ready and raring to go. I sprang up.
“President Buhari is a blessed man, despite a debilitating health challenge he had in 2017. God has been truly merciful,” Adesina wrote in his weekly column.
