LIB can not independently verify these claims, but @LeadersNG claims that the Governors of Nasarawa and Niger State mobilized 1,000 people to welcome President Buhari from his medical vacation to the UK paying them N2,000 per head.
They also said, ‘Chief of Staff to the president mobilized 500 people at N1,000 per head from slums around Abuja’.
FLASH: The governors of Nasarawa and Niger mobilized 1,000 people to welcome the president at N2,000 per head.
— LeadersNG (@LeadersNG) August 19, 2017
Chief of Staff to the president mobilized 500 people at N1,000 per head from slums around Abuja.
— LeadersNG (@LeadersNG) August 19, 2017
NewsRescue observes that the coordination of the welcome was rather unusual. Buhari has gone on medical trips for months and never received the perfectly coordinated welcome.
In spite of the risk that he may not arrive, the people were on time and properly placed along the road in a coordinated and unprecedented fashion.