BEVERLY HILLS, August 01, (THEWILL) – The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday disclosed that the seven governors who visited President Muhammadu Buhari in the United Kingdom last week advised him not to rush back to Nigeria.
Ortom, who spoke with newsmen upon his return from two weeks leave in Makurdi, assured that the President, who travelled out of the country on May 7 to attend to his health, is recuperating fast and would soon return to Nigeria.
Governor Ortom is one of the governors who met with Buhari in London last week.
He said, “When we met the president, he was in high spirit and is eager to return to Nigeria, God has shamed those who wanted the president dead, he chatted with us and we told him to take his time and recuperate well until his doctors find him fit to resume work.”
The Benue governor, while condemning the manner some Nigerians politicized the ailment of the president, stated that Buhari as president represents Nigeria thus whatever happens to him should be of concern to every Nigerian.
“What he needs is our support and prayer, here in Benue we were the first state to start praying for the president because if the president is sick Nigerians are sick, God has put those who think that President Buhari would die to shame, my prayer for them (the critics) is that God should forgive them,” he said.
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