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Buhari’s wellness is person fifty-fifty if country is paying - Information Minister, Lai Mohammed


Nigeria's president is nether no obligation to let on his medical status fifty-fifty though he has spent most of the yr beingness treated abroad, i of his ministers said on Tuesday.

Muhammadu Buhari has spent lengthy periods inward London since January, sparking speculation nigh his fitness to principle -- as well as likewise questions nigh who was basis the bill.

The 74-year-old old regular army full general has said exclusively that he required blood transfusions as well as had never been equally sick inward his life.

Claims from political opponents that he had prostate cancer own got been denied but civil guild groups even as well as hence desire to know whether tax-payers' coin was used for the mortal treatment.

Buhari's information government minister suggested the quiet was non unusual, only hours afterwards the president returned to Abuja from about other circular of check-ups inward the British capital.

"It's non foreign at all for a sitting president to hold out sick as well as it's non foreign either for the dry ground to own got attention of his medical bill," Lai Mohammed told AFP inward an interview, without elaborating.

"I intend there's as well as hence much speculation equally to what he's been treated for.

"I intend nosotros would rather observe his privacy. If Mr President feels similar telling the ground his ailment, as well as hence hold out it. I don't intend he's nether an obligation to tell anyone."

The wellness of Nigeria's caput of dry ground is a sensitive issue. Former president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua roughshod sick as well as died piece inward purpose inward 2010, sparking months of political turmoil.

Buhari's mystery affliction likewise comes equally political parties as well as potential candidates jockey for topographic point ahead of the adjacent presidential election inward 2019.

Buhari's women's affairs government minister Aisha Alhassan claimed before this calendar month that he had said he would exclusively serve one, four-year term of office.

But Mohammed, who was spokesman for Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) that unseated Goodluck Jonathan at the final vote inward 2015, refused to hold out drawn.

"If he's going to run that's left to him but correct now, his major preoccupation is delivering on all his electoral promises," he said.

Buhari returned to Nigeria inward like shooting fish in a barrel August afterwards to a greater extent than than 100 days away. He has since been met amongst a ascension tide of back upward inward southeastern Nigeria for a breakaway dry ground of Biafra.

The authorities final calendar week formally proscribed the primary separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), afterwards repeated clashes amongst the safety services.

IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu is currently on bail pending the resumption of his lawsuit inward Abuja adjacent calendar month on charges of treasonable felony.

Kanu's supporters say he has non been seen since the unrest.

Mohammed, who said the grouping had been banned because it had "crossed a line" from legal protest, said he suspected the separatist leader was "in hiding".

But he added: "He's non beingness held past times authorities at all.”

AFP

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