Uncertainty As Minister Says Buhari Will Now Work From Home, Explains Absence From FEC Meeting

The Federal Government has said that, President Muhammadu Buhari will now work from his residence at the presidential villa.

Addressing State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting on Wednesday which the president did not attend, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said the president “asked that he should be allowed to rest and the vice president should preside.”

The president failed to preside over the weekly cabinet meeting for the second time in a row.

Mr. Mohammed said that the President needed some rest and has asked that all the files on his table be brought to him at his official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for treatment.

The minister also said Mr. Osinbajo will meet with Mr. Buhari later in the day at the president’s official residence.