President Muhammadu Buhari will be leaving for Britain on Friday, Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has announced.
The president is embarking 10 days starting and the vice president will act on his behalf, Adesina said.
He said “In compliance with Section 145 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, a letter has been transmitted to the President of the Senate, and the Speaker, House of Representatives to that effect.
“While the President is on vacation, the Vice President will be in acting capacity as President.”
Buhari saw his doctor when he travelled to Britain for four days in May. Adesina gave no further details of the August trip.
“It is just a routine vacation,” another spokesman, Garba Shehu, said by telephone
Last year, Buhari spent five months in London for treatment for an unspecified illness, an absence that prompted many to question his fitness to run a country that is Africa’s top oil producer and one of its biggest economies.
Senate President Bukola Saraki quit on Tuesday to join the opposition People’s Democratic Party and on Wednesday the governor of northern state Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, did the same.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo acted as interim leader while Buhari was in Britain last year.
