Senators Set
To Hold Frank Meeting With Him On State Of The Nation
Nigerians
who expected President Muhammadu Buhari, to play the same card he
played during
his last medical vacation to London, and return to the country after hosting
his friend and Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, were sorely
disappointed.
On Friday,
Welby leader of the Anglican Communion worldwide paid the recuperating Nigerian
leader a goodwill visit at Abuja House, London, where he expressed delight over
Buhari’s rapid recovery from his health challenges, noting that it was “a
testimony to the healing powers of God, and answer to prayers of millions of
people round the world.’’
The cleric
pledged to continue praying for both Buhari and Nigeria.
For the
expectant Nigerians, their expectations was not out of place. In March this
year, the president returned to the country on March 10, a day after playing
host to the same cleric.
Femi
Adeshina, Buhari’s media aide in a release on the latest visit said Welby and
his principal were good friend, who have deep respect for each other.
Be that as
it may, there was no indication at the Aso RockVilla, yesterday, that Buhari
who was billed to return to the country within the week would arrive anytime
soon.
It also came
to light yesterday, that the National Assembly is also agitated by the president’s
lengthy stay in London. This was after Senator Ben Murray Bruce (PDP Bayelsa
East) disclosed that a bi-partisan Senate would hold an urgent meeting with
Buhari on current situations in the country on his arrival.
Murray-Bruce
hinted that there maybe a high-powered meeting between the Senate and Buhari
when he returns to the country.
“We need to
speak with him about all the issues plaguing the country,” he said, adding that
those to meet with the president will cut across party lines.
He, however,
hinted that President Buhari may be returning anytime next week.
The
Presidency has also not provided a definite timeframe for the president’s stay
in London, and has since maintained that the length of his stay there would
only be determined by his doctors.
Only
recently, six governors went to visit the president in London and thereafter
advised him not to hurry back home, but to take care of his health.
Governor
Samuel Ortom of Benue State who was among the six, was not definitive on the
president’s return date when asked by State House Correspondents at the
Presidential Villa.
Last night
at the Villa, there was no sign that the President would be arriving as earlier
speculated by governors, who visited him and by some politicians, mostly of the
ruling All Progressives Congress Party (APC) family.
The Nigerian
seat of power bore its usual serenity with the heavily wooded fortress
remaining heavily guarded by troops and other security forces. Presidential
aides went about their routine chores with everyone maintaining tight lips on
issues pertaining to the president.
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