By Bukola Olasanmi
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has just met with British monarch, King Charles III.
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Several sources close to the president’s entourage in London say both leaders had communicated with each other in recent times.
The sources could not disclose the reason for the meeting, however, as Buhari is currently in the United Kingdom for a “routine medical check-up” at the time of filing this report.
King Charles III had, in October, written to Buhari to sympathize with the victims of flooding in many parts of Nigeria.
The British monarch said he was deeply saddened “to hear of the many people who have lost their loved ones and whose lives have been so dreadfully affected as a consequence of the devastating floods across Nigeria.”
Buhari had written King Charles III to congratulate him on succeeding late Queen Elizabeth ll who died in September, aged 96.
“The President welcomes Your Majesty’s ascension to the throne in accordance with tradition and prays that King Charles III reign will witness the continuation of robust and sisterly relations between our two nations,” Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said in a statement.