President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will be
returning to Nigeria on Thursday morning
after a six-day trip to the United Kingdom in
the company of former President Shehu
Shagari.
Buhari, who during his trip to the UK, met
with British Prime Minister David Cameron,
will arrive onboard a British Airways flight
that is scheduled to land in Abuja around 4
am.
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Shagari who was in the UK
on a private visit, was overthrown by Buhari
in a military coup d’etat 32 years ago. Both
men will be flying back to the country 24
hours before Buhari’s inauguration as
Nigeria’s fifth democratically elected
president.
Shagari, between October 1, 1979 and
December 31, 1983, was Nigeria’s first
democratically elected president.
Buhari had departed the country last Friday
in the company of two of his close aides,
ostensibly to get away from the pressure that
had been brought to bear on him by members
of his party the All Progressives Congress
(APC), state governors and varied interest
groups who had laid siege on him in recent
weeks for posts in his government.
He was said to have decided to get some rest
ahead of the inauguration before plunging
into the arduous task of running the country.
However, his trip, which he embarked upon
without the knowledge of the leadership of
the APC, has caused disquiet among its
chieftains, as it was the first clear signal that
the president-elect is a man of independent
thinking determined to do things his way.
Buhari in recent days has also made it known
that the governors will have no say in
determining the members of his cabinet,
making it abundantly clear to them after they
had submitted their ministerial lists, that he
would have no say on who their
commissioners should be.
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