The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said Nigerians should be more concerned about the security challenges facing the country instead President Muhammadu Buhari’s returning date from his medical trip to the United Kingdom.
Buhari on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, left Abuja for the UK for a routine medical checkup, and the Presidency explained that he is expected to return to Abuja this week.
However, when State House Correspondents on Wednesday asked the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to put a date to the expected return of the President the query was sidestepped.
The Minister just retorted: “Today is Wednesday, this week finishes on Saturday. So, what’s the big issue in that one?”
According to him, the government was more concerned with insecurity bedeviling the country.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had said in a statement to announce the planned departure, that Buhari would be back in the country in the second week of April 2021.
“He is due back in the country during the second week of April 2021,” the statement said.
With the refusal to put a special date for the President's return, it therefore, means Buhari could stay much longer than expected.