President
Muhammadu Buhari's return to Nigeria was put off late last night because his
doctors would not certify him healthy enough to return home despite strong
pressure
from the 'cabal'.
According to
SR, presidency sources said the desperation to have him back was so much that
the cabal sent to London on Friday the biggest jet in the presidential fleet, a
Boeing Business Jet 737, known as "Airforce 001" to bring Buhari home
anyhow.
It was learnt
that they wanted to ferry him into Abuja before the closure of the Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport on Wednesday.
In that
connection, the smaller presidential jet which initially flew President Buhari
to the UK was returned to Abuja the same day while the bigger jet was sent to
London with a fresh crew.
SR added that
the return to Abuja last week of Buhari's powerful nephew, Mammam Daura, as
well as one of his daughters, all heightened the political anxiety that
President Buhari would return on Sunday evening.
The sources
maintained that President Buhari’s doctors refused to give him the clean bill
of health that would enable him to return.
In the
meantime, media aides to the president have continued to issue statements
claiming that President Buhari is making phone calls to world and Nigerian
leaders and politicians.
This strategy
is aimed at keeping Nigerians believing that the president is fully recovered
from his ailments, but sources involved in Buhari's treatment say he is far
from recovered, and his return date, and therefore his return to work, remains
unclear.
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