Femi Adesina doesn’t know when President will return
Adesina made the comments on Tuesday, February 21, while speaking to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Femi Adesina
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“What we have just said is what I will want us to believe. The President said he needs to rest further. The same President that communicated that to us, when it is time for him to come, he will also communicate to us,” Adesina said.
“He (the President) is the one who owns his body and there is nobody who will know his body more than him and he says no cause to worry.
“It makes sense to say that maybe from the results of the tests, further rests had been recommended. The statement did not say how long the rest will last.
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“I speak for somebody, I do not speak for myself. So it is what he tells me to say that I say and the statement transmitted to me is that the President needs to rest for some further time,” he added.
Adesina had earlier issued a statement in which he quoted Buhari as saying that there’s no cause for worry over his health.
Buhari has been away from Nigeria since January 19, when he left the country for a 10-day medical vacation in London.
The president was due to resume on February 6, but he wrote the Senate on February 5 to extend his vacation indefinitely.
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In the letter, he told the Senate that he would not return to Nigeria until his doctors ruled out "certain factors."
However, various government officials have assured Nigerians that the president is hale and hearty.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who visited Buhari twice in London, said that the president is in good spirits and is his usual witty self.
Saraki also said that there's no cause for alarm over Buhari's health.
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