BEVERLY HILLS, May 23, (THEWILL) – The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has revealed that the President Muhammadu Buhari is working from London insisting that his absence has not made much difference.
Speaking in an interview on BBC Hard Talk, Kachikwu also declared that Acting-President Yemi Osinbajo had also been very efficient.
“Yes, he is in London. He is undergoing hospital treatment. I don’t know the details of that and I obviously wouldn’t know. But let me say this, he returned from his first trip in London, even though the doctors advised him to have some rest,” he said, responding to a question on the state of health of the President.
“He’s back to London and he has continued some levels of meetings and has been able to play some roles. He has a very efficient vice-president who is sitting in for him in his absence. It really hasn’t made much of a difference.
“Well, we’ve heard rumours in Nigeria about sick presidents off and on, most of them sometimes not quite correct. Will he be able to lead Nigeria? I think looking at the sort of conversations I had with him when he came back, he was strong enough to do his work, struggled a bit in terms of trying to fully recover.
“Nobody plans on illness, it happens. He has an efficient number two man; the system works, that’s the whole essence of democracy. He’s on top of his abilities to be able to issue policies and to be able to approve what he needs to be approved.”
