Osinbajo returns from UK, says Buhari recuperating fast
He,
however, said he had “good conversation on wide ranging issues” with the
President for over an hour.
Osinbajo spoke with State House correspondents shortly before the commencement
of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
He assured
Nigerians that Buhari, who has spent over two months in the British capital,
was in high spirit when they met and would soon return to the country.
When asked
specifically if the President would return to the country before 90 days,
Osinbajo said it would be wrong to apply deadline.
Although
he said the two ministers-designate would soon be inaugurated, the Acting
President said he had no date in mind.
The
following conversation ensued between him and the reporters:
You just got back from seeing Mr. President, what
did you discuss with him?
Well,
first as you know, I went to see him. I went to check up on him and find
out how he was doing. I had of course been speaking with him on the phone and I
thought it would be a good thing to go and see him and you know generally check
up on how he was doing and also to brief him on developments back at home. So,
we had a very good time, we had a very good conversation on wide ranging issues
and he is in very good spirit. He is recuperating very quickly and he is doing
very well.
What is the state of health of Mr. President?
Well, as I
have said, he is in very high spirit. He is recuperating very well and we had
very long conversation. We spoke for well over an hour and his humour is all
there. He is doing well and he is recuperating fast.
When is he due back?
I think
very shortly; very shortly. I think we should really expect him back very
shortly. Like I said, he is recuperating very fast and he is doing very well.
Was the report of the suspended SGF and NIA DG part
of your conversation?
We
discussed wide-ranging issues. I really can’t go into specifics of all of the
discussions we had.
Was the inauguration of the two ministers part of
the discussion?
No. We
didn’t discuss inauguration or anything like that. We didn’t.
When will the ministers-designate be inaugurated?
Well, I’m
not in a position to say anything. I don’t have a date in mind but I’m sure
very very soon, we will do that.
Are we expecting Mr. President before 90 days?
No no.
Deadlines aren’t a very good thing but as I said, he is recuperating fast. We
are expecting him very shortly. Much sooner than you will expect.
Meanwhile,
the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the reported
visit of Osinbajo to President Buhari in London as another attempt by the All
Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to deceive Nigerians on the state
of health of the President.
The
governor said what Nigerians desired was a live video of the President
addressing them, “not a visit in which no pictorial evidence (photo or video)
was made available to the public.”
“President
Buhari has spent 65 days out of the country since he left on May 7, 2017 and no
one has seen him. Yet, Nigerians are being told that Acting President Osinbajo
visited him with no picture and no video (evidence) to show except that of his
(Osinbajo) entering and leaving the Abuja House in London.”
Fayose
stated this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, on Wednesday.
The
governor restated his challenge that Buhari’s handlers should prove to
Nigerians that he was not incapacitated by producing him to the public.
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