The president’s absence from two consecutive cabinet meetings as well as Friday prayers last week has fuelled speculation about the state of his health.
He has not been seen in public for more than a week and the hashtag #WhereIsBuhari has been trending on Twitter in Nigeria over the past 24 hours
In March, he returned from seven weeks of medical leavein the UK, but did not disclose the nature of his illness.
In a statement, the activists, including lawyer Femi Falana and political analyst Jibrin Ibrahim, said:
We are compelled to advise him to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay.”
They quote Mr Buhari’s spokesman as saying that his doctors advised him to take things slowly.
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