{"id":40136,"date":"2021-03-31T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=40136"},"modified":"2021-03-31T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:46:32","slug":"send-buhari-back-home-sowore-tells-nigerians-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/send-buhari-back-home-sowore-tells-nigerians-in-uk","title":{"rendered":"Send Buhari back home \u2013 Sowore tells Nigerians in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A Nigerian human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has called on Nigerians residing in the United Kingdom, UK, to repatriate President Muhammadu Buhari back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the president, on Tuesday afternoon, departed Nigeria for the UK to undergo a medical check-up.<\/p>\n<p>According to the presidency, Buhari is expected to return to the country during the second week of April.<\/p>\n<p>But on his Twitter page, Sowore who has been initiating different protests against the current government over alleged bad governance, said the president should be chased back to patronize the medical facilities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians in the UK please help send @mbuhari back home for his annual medical check-up at the \u201cWorld Class\u201d hospital he built in Nigeria! If you\u2019re one of the 8,000 medical doctor of Nigerian descent in the UK, you should join this fight\u201d, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari\u2019s medical trip came when the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) is threatening to embark on an indefinite strike over the Federal Government\u2019s inability to meet their demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Nigerian human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has called on Nigerians residing in the United Kingdom, UK, to repatriate President Muhammadu Buhari back to Nigeria. DAILY POST recalls that the president, on Tuesday afternoon, departed Nigeria for the UK to undergo a medical check-up. 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