It used to be just one of the beautiful houses in the quiet neighbourhood. Black, glittering iron-rod gates, red bricks, trees and a green-white-green flag fluttering in the breeze.

Not anymore. Abuja House, the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom, is now famous – for housing a Very Important Personality (VIP), President Muhammadu Buhari.

Located in the posh Campden Hill area of the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, Abuja House is one of the most prominent buildings on the street. Across the road is the home of the High Commissioner of South Africa to the UK.

This is where President Buhari has been spending his vacation. The President left the country after informing the National Assembly and transferring power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as acting president on January 19.

The announcement of the President’s vacation, which was initially for 10 days before it was extended last week, added that the President would take the advantage of his trip to do some medical checks.

That sparked speculations, especially in the social media, that the President was gravely ill and in the hospital.

The rumour won’t go away despite attempts to dispel it by presidential aides and the Federal Government. This, however, has turned out to be false.

Last week, All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Interim Chairman of the party Chief Bisi Akande, visited the President at the Abuja House. The photograph of the visit, with the President beaming, was splashed on the front pages of many newspapers.

Yesterday, our London Bureau Chief met with the President’s cousin, Alhaji Mamman Daura, who visited the president.

At exactly 1.05 pm (London time), two young women believed to be President Buhari’s daughters were driven out of the Abuja House in a black Mercedes Benz car.The vehicle returned at 2.24 pm without its passengers.

At 1.20 pm, Daura arrived in a London black cab. He was with two others. Daura, who left at about 2.50 pm, declined comments when asked about how the President was getting on. He said; “I came here with Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) the other day, didn’t you see it?”

Shortly after, the serenity of the street was shattered (at about 3.30pm), when five officials – two contracted private security guards and three others, who appeared to be High Commission officials, and a personal aide to the president, came to ask why this reporter was “hanging around”.

He was threatened and told to go away to avoid police invitation. “You have to go away with this car from here. You cannot take any photograph here,” a guard said.

But this reporter declined because the United Kingdom law does not forbid parking on a public road and taking photographs of private properties from public view.

Four policemen later arrived at about 3.40 pm, using two vans and two motor bikes. The policemen were armed. The engagement between this reporter and the policemen turned into a friendly banter – to the embarrassment of the officials who received a lecture from the police that there was no offence in taking photographs of private properties and also parking on a public road where there is no double yellow line.

But the policemen told this reporter that high commissions get worried when unfamiliar people come around to take photographs and loiter.

According to them, the Saudi Embassy is particularly not inclined to people coming around it. “We do get regular calls like that,” one of the policemen said.

http://thenationonlineng.net/day-abuja-house-london/

So what happened ?

Abeg make unable leave Baba alone make him rest.

I just wasted my time reading this meaningless report by a sabi sabi paparazzi

Why is Buhari hiding.

Me no care

U no get work

All I need is life, I think that is the song singing by the president..

SO?

Just one useless photo??

They think it's here in Nigeria where you will get policemen or Soldiers to flog the reporter koboko.

All this write up, for what?


Stop telling/showing us the house buhari is in and SHOW US BUHARI



someone on vacation must have visited some places nah

just show us a video clip of bubu in starmford brigbe

didnt he watch the match btw Bunley and chelsea?

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Are their no loyal zoneB's shouting "Sai Baba" in UK? ....

Let them go and visit our oga nah

Mtshwww so?

...he's so dead

How exactly does this affect the prices of goods in the market.....?

Nigerians in the UK should mobilize, get a police permit, relocate to the gate of this so called vacation venue and demand to see the dullard.

Invite CNN to cover the protest let it become a world news and you see the real and hidden truths unfold.

"He was threatened and told to go away "?

Theses zombies think they are in Nigeria were they can threaten and harras anybody they don't like?

Wake up zombie this is London, were the common man on the street have right.

is he still alive!

So, did the reporter see our runaway presido. That's why I love all those developed countries . It's nobody's business if you take pictures of high-profiled people or not but I trust our amazing Nigerian police and DSS, they'll arrest the person for lurking around and trespassing on presidential property.

Ayam not understanding

Buhari is either dead or incapacitated. Which type of vacation does a president stay indoor for almost a month now

and what's the moral of this story?

why all this hide and seek game?

With their savage mentality, they thought the UK was Nigeria where you can bully a reporter and make joke of his fundamental human rights but they were schooled and worse still by the authorities. Loving it.
It's a shame that citizens of a sovereignty democratic state can't have access or informations about her president and worse, the citizens are senile to act and cower in their "face me I punch you home" to twitter and bark like a toothless cub. Well, it's a known fact of the unproductive state of mind of an average Nigerian and daily it's exploited by our not too bright politicians.
"The blind leading the blind to a folly paradise".

Did you guys see Bubu?

Hmmm

I love that, u think UK is a place where u use popo anyhow.

Yeye dey smell




Ink oooooo

Where are those people that trek when #Buhari won. Pls lets dem trek to London and confirm for us if Buhari is ......................