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Nigeria’s Minister of information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has explained that President Muhammadu Buhari’s absent during the Wednesdays’ Federal Executive Council (FEC) Meeting was on the advice of his doctors to enable him fully recover.
Mohammed while addressing State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting, noted that, “The President chose today to rest, he was in his office yesterday, which you all reported.
“He is taking his doctors’ advice so that he can fully recover,” the minister said.
The Information Minister had last week stated that President Buhari was taking the day to rest and work from home. This week makes it the third that the President Buhari was absent at the FEC meeting.