President Buhari has just returned from a medical trip to London

On Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja from London, where he had been for two weeks for a normal medical check-up.

A few minutes ago, Buhari’s plane landed in Abuja at the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

After attending a security council meeting and a Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers in Owerri, Imo State, on October 31, 2022, Buhari flew to London.

President Buhari is expected back in the country in the “second week of November,” according to a tweet from Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina.

While in office, the President has spent at least 212 days away from the country for medical purposes.

The President’s first medical trip began on February 5, 2016—eight months after he assumed office—and lasted for six days, from February 5 through February 10.

Later that year, on June 6, 2016, Buhari would make his second medical trip.

He returned on June 19, 2016, having spent the previous 10 days in treatment for an ear infection.

The President left on his longest medical journey ever on January 19, 2017. Nonetheless, he informed the Saraki-led Senate in a letter of his intention to take a 10-day trip to London before departing.

Buhari announced his resignation in a letter addressed to Vice President and Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Buhari left Abuja on January 23, 2017, before his scheduled medical leave began.

He came back to the country on March 10th, 2017. There were fifty days of travel involved.

This longest medical pilgrimage of his lasted 104 days, and it began in May of that year, just two months after the president’s previous trip.