Amidst speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari is about 85 year old, the president on Monday said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75.
Buhari spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, led a delegation to pay him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said he had recovered well from the sickness because he obeyed his doctors who instructed him to be eating and sleeping well.
“I am very grateful (to you) for taking time out on a very important day to come out and spend it with us ”, Punch quoted him as saying.
“But this sickness…I don’t know, but I came out better. All those who saw me before said I look much better when I came back.
“But I have explained it to the public that as a General, I used to give orders. But now, I take orders.
” The doctors told me to feed my stomach and sleep for longer hours. That is why I am looking much better,” he said.
He said that was why immediately after his inauguration as President in 2015, his first foreign trip was to Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin Republic.
“If you are in good terms with your neigbours, then you can make some savings for development.
