No big deal about Buhari’s returning date, says Lai Mohammed

THE Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said it’s trivial to be pestering government officials with question on when President Buhari will return to the country.

Lai noted that government was currently more concerned about the security challenges facing the country.

The minister said this shortly after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when asked the exact date the President would be back by journalists.

He said he didn’t understand the big deal about the matter.

It was exactly 15 days yesterday that Buhari left the country for what his aide described as routine medical check-up in London.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, had disclosed in a statement that Buhari was due back in the country “during the second week of April, 2021.”

But when asked about when the President would return to the country, Mohammed replied “Today is Wednesday; this week finishes on Saturday. So, what is the big issue in that one”. 

He said the Federal Government had demonstrated through a town hallmeeting held in Kaduna last week that it was committed to the security of the country and not trivial matters.