{"id":316170,"date":"2017-05-03T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316170"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:06:18","slug":"nigerias-ailing-president-buhari-misses-third-cabinet-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/nigerias-ailing-president-buhari-misses-third-cabinet-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s ailing President Buhari misses third cabinet meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has missed his third cabinet meeting in a row amid ongoing questions about the state of his health.<\/p>\n
He has not been seen in public for more than a week.<\/p>\n
His wife Aisha Buhari had tweeted on Tuesday that her husband was not as sick as is being perceived.<\/p>\n
In March, Mr Buhari returned from seven weeks of medical leave in the UK where he was treated for an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n
When he returned home he said he had never been so ill in his life.<\/p>\n
In her tweets, Mrs Buhari said that the president was continuing to “carry out his responsibilities” and has been meeting with ministers. She also thanked Nigerians.<\/p>\n
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was the acting president while Mr Buhari was away in the UK, is chairing the cabinet meeting in the capital, Abuja.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, a group of prominent Nigerians has called on Mr Buhari to take medical leave as concerns about his health grow.<\/p>\n
He uncharacteristically failed to show up at last Friday’s prayers at the mosque on state house grounds.<\/p>\n
Information Minister Lai Mohammed told the BBC that the president’s health was “a personal matter” and that Nigerians have been kept aware of his condition.<\/p>\n
Thirteen influential civil society figures, said in a statement on Monday that the president’s absence from the cabinet meetings, as well as the weekly Friday Muslim prayers, “has fuelled further speculation and rumours” about his medical condition.<\/p>\n