President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja on Tuesday evening for London, to keep an appointment with his doctor.
He would spend four days and return on Saturday, May 12th.
It was his third medical vacation in the United Kingdom, since January 2017.
Buhari was accompanied to the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by some top government officials and presidential aides.
The President’s security officials and a few close aides accompanied him on the trip.
The presidential aircraft marked 5N-FGW which conveyed the President left the airport at about 3.20pm.
Those who saw the President off to the airport included his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari; the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Bello, and the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had in a statement on Monday, announced that Buhari would on Tuesday embark on a four-day medical trip to the UK.
Shehu had said the President would return to the country on Saturday.
The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will tommorrow (Tuesday) undertake a four-day trip to the United Kingdom.
“In the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back from Washington last week, the President had a meeting with his doctor.
“The doctor requested the President to return for a meeting which he agreed to do.
“President Buhari will return on Saturday, May 12th.
Buhari had on many occasions travelled abroad for medical reasons. He returned to the country on March 10, 2017, after a 49-day medical sojourn, saying he had never been that sick in his life.
He then gave an indication that he would return to London for further checkup.
Buhari, on May 7, 2017, travelled back to London for medical consultation only to return to the country on August 19, 2017.
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