Medical test suggests Buhari needs further rest - Presidency

Media aide to president Buhari, Femi Adesina, has now said further rest was recommended by president Buhari's doctors due to test results. Mr Adesina however did not say when the rest period will expire.

Mr Adesina disclosed this to statehouse correspondents in Abuja.

“The President wants Nigerians to know that he appreciates their prayers; he appreciates their concerns and their goodwill. 

“He is the one who owns the body and there is nobody who will know his body more than him and he says no cause to worry.

“It makes sense to say that, maybe from the results of the tests, further rests had been recommended.

“I speak for somebody; I do not speak for myself. So it is what he tells me to say that I say and the statement transmitted to me is that the President needs to rest for some further time,” he added.

He also declined to state what the nature of the president's illness is.