President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his entourage who just returned from a trip to the United Kingdom have gone into quarantine.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, on Media and Publicity,who disclosed this on on Sunday, explained that the decision of Buhari to go into quarantine was in accordance with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) guidelines for international travel.
Members of the President’s delegation to the UK included the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Munguno (retired).
President Buhari left Nigeria for the United Kingdom on July 26 to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 and following that went to see his medical doctors.
The decision by President Buhari to go into quarantine is bound to scale back activities needing his physical consultation with aides as during the period he would be cut off from physical interaction with others.
