SAN FRANCISCO, June 08, (THEWILL) – The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. Babachir Lawal has confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari and three ministers of the Federal Republic are currently indisposed.
He made this known on Wednesday while saying a prayer at the commencement of the day’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Upon getting to the Chamber, the Vice President asked the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to offer Islamic prayer, while he appointed Lawal, a pastor, to say the Christian prayer.
While Mohammed simply asked God to grant the cabinet members wisdom as they make national decisions at the meeting, the federal government scribe prayed God to be with the President who he said was on “medical vacation.”
He then went on to mention ministers who he said were indisposed and asked God to heal them. Lawal began with the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Aisha Alhassan, who he said “is recuperating in US after a surgery.”
He equally prayed for the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who, according to him, “is down with back pain.”
Right before concluding his prayer, the SGF was reminded that he did not mention the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, making him to promptly add Jibril’s name to his list of sick cabinet members.
It would be recalled that Buhari on Monday left Abuja for London on a 10-day vacation during which he is scheduled to see Ear, Nose and Throat, ENT specialists in relation to what the Presidency described as his persistent ear infection.
Replying reporters at the tarmac of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, who sought to know how to calm the tension of a President falling sick, Buhari asked rhetorically: “is there anybody that doesn’t fall sick?”
