Six more State Governors are billed to travel to London to visit ailing President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday. Those listed are governors of Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Kano, Benue, and Oyo States, to be led by Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara. Two among those selected to visit the President Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states governors are from the opposition party PDP.
This was disclosed by three presidential spokespersons, Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande, at a media briefing in Abuja. The visit is coming at the heels of a visit to the President by some APC leaders and governors on Sunday, in London.
Mr. Buhari had on that July 23 met with the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some governors elected on the party’s platform.
A statement by the presidency, which provided a photograph of the event, gave the names of those who met with the president to include Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, Yahaya Bello of Kogi, and the APC National Chairman, John Oyegun.
His deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, recently visited him in the British capital, reporting back to Nigerians that the nation’s number one man was recuperating fast and would return soon.
The visit is being coordinated and arranged by the office of the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagan Monguno (rtd). The governors have been directed to be at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport on Tuesday, where they’ll fly to meet with the president at Abuja House, London, United Kingdom.
