Buhari has been using UK medical team for over 40 years – Adesina

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday exposed the medical history of his boss, revealing that President Buhari has been using a medical team in the United Kingdom (UK) for over 40 years. The S.A. Media and Publicity argued that the President cannot leave the UK medical team for any other alternative medical service provider.

Adesina in a media interaction affirmed that President Buhari has been using a medical team in the UK for over 40 years, arguing that the president has to continue seeking medical help in the UK from the team that understands his medical history.

“President Buhari has been with the same doctors and medical team for upward of 40 years.

“It is advisable that he continues with that who knows his medical history and that is why he comes to London to see them. He has used the same medical team for over 40 years. Once you can afford it, then stay with the team that has your history,” Adesina declared.

President Buhari departed Nigeria on Monday for the UK to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. He was scheduled to, thereafter, proceed for an earlier scheduled medical check-up in London.

Adesina had said that the President delayed the medical trip to merge it with the summit in order to save cost. He maintained that the medical tour was long overdue.

Meanwhile, President Buhari did not transmit power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to act on his behalf. According to the presidency, President Buhari would be governing Nigeria from the UK.

Adesina had argued that the Constitution empowers Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to act as President if President Buhari is not back to the country within 21 days. He, however, in contradiction, admitted that the vice president is there to attend to critical issues, adding that there is no vacuum.

“The nation is running, there is a vice president who will attend to critical issues. There is no vacuum and a constitutional amendment has sorted that out,” Adesina insisted.