Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu says President Muhammadu Buhari has only travelled to the United Kingdom for a routine medical check-up, but not in serious condition.
Shehu said this during a television interview on Tuesday.
He said: “It is a medical trip and there is absolutely no urgency, no emergency; the President is not in any sick condition.
“It is a routine medical check-up; the President has undertaken this with a set of doctors that he has retained over many years.”
The President departed the Presidential Villa for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 2:30pm after which he proceeded to London for a routine medical check-up.
Buhari had embarked on several medical trips to the UK since he assumed office, a development that always spark criticism from the main opposition party in the country.
However, this is the fist time Buhari will travel to the UK since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The President is expected back in the second week of April.
