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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has
asked parliament to extend his medical leave,
deepening suspicions that his health is far
worse than officials are publicly admitting.
The 74-year-old, who had been dogged by
speculation about whether he was physically
fit for office even before he took power in May
2015, had been due to return to Abuja on
Sunday after taking more than two weeks'
leave for medical checks in the UK.
"President Muhammadu Buhari has written to
the National Assembly today, February 5,
2017, informing of his desire to extend his
leave in order to complete and receive the
results of a series of tests recommended by
his doctors," his office said in a statement.
It did not say how much extra time Buhari
was seeking off.
Buhari's spokesman, Garba Shehu, told the
Reuters news agency that the president was
"not in any serious medical condition".
He declined to give details of the medical
checks.
Buhari, a former army general who headed a
military regime in the 1980s, was last in
London in June 2016 for treatment for what
was said at the time to be a persistent inner
ear infection.
His extended leave could further erode
confidence in his administration, already
under pressure from investors to let Nigeria's
currency float freely to try to revive an oil-
driven economy now is at its weakest in 25
years.
As rumours swirled over Buhari's health, some
Nigerians took to social media demanding
more details.
Nigeria, which ranks 136 out of 168 countries
in Transparency International's Corruption
Perception Index for 2016, has struggled for
years to fight corruption among its political
elite.
But since Buhari was elected to power in 2014
on a campaign that vowed to root out
corruption, anti-fraud agencies have arrested
several senior politicians accused of
embezzlement.
[color =green]OUR UNRELIABLE APROKO[/color] reports a
government source told him Nigerians should
pray and fast for the president's health,
"Fasting should come easy to most Nigerians,
since most of them go 6-6 without eating."
The source.
