Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the parliament to extend his medical operate out inwards the UK, alongside concerns that his wellness may live on worse than officials are publicly saying.
The 74-year-old leader, who has been out of the province for ii weeks, was expected to provide to Abuja on Sunday.
However, an official disceptation said he had been advised yesteryear doctors to rest dorsum inwards London as well as await the results of a serial of tests.
It did non tell how much extra fourth dimension would live on needed.
There was too no advert of what the medical checks were actually for.
Analysts tell that Mr Buhari's extended absence could farther erode confidence inwards his management which is already nether pressure level due to a weak economic scheme as well as the conflict with Boko Haram Islamist militants inwards the north-east of the country.
The province is currently suffering from its worst economical crisis inwards years, next a abrupt inwards the cost of oil, its major export.
Businesses as well as investors complain that the government's handling of the currency telephone commutation charge per unit of measurement has made a bad province of affairs fifty-fifty worse, as well as at that topographic point convey been demonstrations against the lack of jobs as well as high inflation.
Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo is taking on presidential responsibilities piece the president is abroad.
'Medical tourism'
It is the instant fourth dimension inwards less than a twelvemonth that Mr Buhari has sought medical assistance overseas. Last June, he spent nearly ii weeks, i time again inwards London, for handling for an ear infection.
The trip to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland appears to curl dorsum on the commitment to tighten upward on authorities officials seeking medical attending abroad.
Speaking on the president's behalf at concluding year's Nigeria Medical Association General Conference (NMA) inwards Sokoto, Health Minister Isaac Adewole said the Buhari management would non encourage spending Nigeria's difficult earned resources on whatsoever authorities official seeking medical aid abroad, peculiarly when at that topographic point was bear witness of expertise inwards Nigeria.
The president has been heavily criticised for seeming to renege on his hope to limit "medical tourism".
After the showtime catch to London, leading Nigerian medico Osahon Enabulele, vice-president of the Commonwealth Medical Association, said it was a "national shame" that Mr Buhari went to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland for handling when Nigeria had to a greater extent than than 250 ear, olfactory organ as well as pharynx (ENT) specialists, every bit good every bit a National Ear Centre.
He said too that Mr Buhari should Pb yesteryear event inwards using Nigerian doctors as well as facilities, as well as ensure authorities officials produce non larn abroad on "frivolous" medical trips.
In the past, President Buhari has said that Nigeria loses virtually $1bn a twelvemonth to medical tourism.
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