The highly celebrated meeting between Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and ailing President Muhammad Buhari lasted for five minutes only according to Presidency officials in the know of the what transpired between the two leaders at the “Abuja House” in London.
When Acting President Osinbajo arrived London, he left behind his entourage and traveled in a car all with a few diplomatic staff alone to meet President Buhari in his abode.
Our sources state that President Buhari still has a major difficulty speaking audibly as his treatment continues for an ailment believed to be cancer, which is ravaging his system.
The bulk of time spent by Osinbajo in London was done arranging how to meet Buhari in person. According to sources when he arrived the Abuja House venue of the meeting it took at least 45 minutes to let him into where President Buhari met him privately only for five minutes before he was ushered out and spent some more time speaking with other aides of Buhari in the general area of the house before leaving Abuja house to return to Nigeria.
The meeting between Osinbajo and Buhari was not more than mere pleasantries according to our source who said Buhari shuttles between two hospitals, one outside London and the other one within the city, occasionally returning to “Abuja House” where he recuperates when his treatment is less intense. – SR