CBC News-World: Nigerian President Returns with Few Answers after Mysterious 7-week Absence
- Anna Cunningham
- Mar 12, 2017
- 1 min read
President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria Friday after a mysterious absence that lasted nearly two months. (Aso Rock Villa/Facebook)
Photo Credit: CBC News World
Picture this hypothetical scenario: it's mid-January and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to the U.K. without any fanfare.
Officials in Ottawa announce in a press release that he has left for a 10-day holiday, and while in London he'll "undergo routine medical checkups."
No one sees or hears from him, but it's common knowledge he's staying at the Canadian high commissioner's official residence.
Trudeau's spokespeople say he's well and there's nothing to worry about.
They ignore questions about why he's gone abroad to get treatment and how much it's costing taxpayers.
But ten days becomes seven weeks. Canadians only ever see the head of their government in stage-managed photographs published on Twitter.
Senior government figures who travelled to London return to Canada and unanimously insist the prime minister is in top form and all use the same phrase — "hale and hearty."
None of this happened with Trudeau, of course. But it's exactly what happened with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
He left Nigeria in mid-January, with the country deep in recession and famine warnings in parts of the northeast.
Text above culled from CBC News World. Views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of SitiTalkBlog.
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