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Buhari avoids Abuja House London to escape from protesters

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in the United Kingdom, has for the first time, shunned the Abuja House where he usually stays in order to avoid the crowd of Nigerian protesters who have mobilized to the venue.

It was learnt from some of the protesters that Buhari, who left Nigeria on Monday to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 in the United Kingdom, was not sighted at the Abuja House, raising suspicion that the President had diverted to a private mission.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a release on Monday had said the President would remain in London for two weeks to enable him undergo his earlier scheduled medical checkup.

“We are at the Abuja House in London; we have stationed here since Buhari left Nigeria to continue the #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon protests, because Nigerians cannot be suffering insecurity, bad governance and all and the President will be hibernating here.

“But Buhari did not come here. We don’t know where he is staying,” a source stated.

“Let Nigerians in London fish him out. We want to know where Buhari has privately gone to. He needs to know that Nigerians in UK are eager to meet him and send him back. He cannot escape our protests,” another London-based Nigerian stated.

According to the GPE organisers, only the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, would be hosting the event live with UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, while other leaders were advised to join online as part of worldwide measures against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Adesina, Presidential spokesman, the summit will “provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices.”

Adesina had said the summit would be co-hosted by Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya.

“After the Summit, the President will spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August, 2021,” Adesina said.

 

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