ACTING President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, July 12, said that when he saw President Muhammadu Buhari in London, he was in good spirit and recuperating very fast.

Speaking to State House correspondents just before entering the Council Chamber to start the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, Osinbajo who just returned to the country after his visit on Tuesday, July 11 to see Buhari in London, United Kingdom, assured Nigerians that the president would soon return to Nigeria.

Buhari left Nigeria since May 7, this year to meet up with follow up consultation with his doctors.

He said: “Well, first as you know I went to see him, I went to check up on him to find out how he was doing. I had of course been speaking on the phone and I thought it will be a good thing to go and see him and you know generally check up on how he was doing and also to brief him on developments back at home.

“So we had a very good time, we had a very good conversation on wide ranging issues and he is in very good spirit, he is recuperating very quickly and he is doing very well.

On the state of the president’s health, Osinbajo said: “Well, as I have said he is in very high spirit, he is recuperating very well and we had very long conversation, we spoke for well over an hour and his humour is all there. He is doing well and he is recuperating fast.

Asked when Buhari would be back in the country soon, he said: “I think very very shortly. Very shortly. I think we should really expect him back very shortly. Like I said he is recuperating very fast and he is doing very, very well.”

Prodded further if the president would return within 90 days from May 7, the acting president said: “No no. Deadlines aren’t a very good thing but as I said he is recuperating fast we expecting him very shortly. Much sooner than you will expect.”

Asked if the meeting dwell on the report of Babachir David Lawal, the suspended secretary to the government of the federation and Ayo Oke, director general of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, he simply said that the meeting covered wide ranging issues. “I really can’t go into specifics of all of the discussions we had.” he added

He also said that the meeting didn’t discuss swearing in of the two ministerial nominees.

Asked when they would be sworn in, Osinbajo said he was not in a position to say anything. “I don’t have a date in mind but I’m sure very, very soon we will do that,” he said.

—  Jul 12, 2017 @ 14:20 GMT