Nigeria’s minister of Information, Lai Mohammed Tuesday, said the president is under no obligation to disclose his medical condition.

Background:

• President Buhari has spent more time in London than in the country since January, sparking speculation about his fitness to govern — and also questions about who was footing the bill.
• Buhari, 74, has said only that he required blood transfusions and had never been as sick in his life.

Highlights:

• Mohammed suggested the silence was not unusual, just hours after the president returned to Abuja from another round of check-ups in the British capital.
• “It’s not strange at all for a sitting president to be ill and it’s not strange either for the state to take care of his medical bill,” Lai Mohammed told AFP in an interview.
• “I think there’s so much speculation as to what he’s been treated for.
• “I think we would rather respect his privacy. If Mr President feels like telling the world his ailment, so be it. I don’t think he’s under an obligation to tell anyone.”

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