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LAGOS. — At least seven Nigerian state governors were set to visit ailing President Muhammadu Buhari in London yesterday, the presidency said on Tuesday.

The delegation is being led by the governor of northwest Zamfara State, who is the chairman of the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum (NGF), said presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in Abuja, the country’s capital city.

According to him, the governors of Zamfara, Ebonyi, Kano, Borno, Benue, Akwa Ibom and Oyo were to meet the president yesterday in London.

“They will leave tonight and make an early morning arrival in the UK,” he told reporters.

On his part, Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesperson said the selection of members of the delegation was done by the NGF.

He dismissed the insinuation that Governor Ayodele Fayose of southwest Ekiti, a renowned critic of President Buhari’s administration, was deliberately excluded from the trip.

According to Adesina, the president, who is recuperating very fast, preferred receiving delegations rather than addressing the nation through broadcast.

President Buhari had on Sunday in London received a delegation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) which comprised national leadership of the party and its governors.

On July 11, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo also visited the president in London and reported that he was recuperating fast.

The president left Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city for London on May 7 for follow-up on his medical checks. – Xinhua