Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, and Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, arrived at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in London on Monday ahead of the arrival of the body of former President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria.
The former leaders who are in London to commiserate with Buhari’s family were received by Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Buhari, who led Africa’s most populous nation both as a military ruler and a civilian president, passed on in a London clinic on Sunday.
President Bola Tinubu had on Sunday directed Shettima and his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, to head to the United Kingdom to accompany the late former president’s body back to Nigeria.
Buhari’s body is expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday and subsequently be buried in his hometown, Daura, in Katsina State, on the same day.
See photos below. Channels TV/Juliana Olayinka.
Source: Channels TV
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