Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday in London, will no longer be buried today as logistics arrangements to bring his remains home today could not be concluded.
Cisca News gathered that informed sources in London indicated that the earliest opportunity for the flight to make it to Nigeria will be from Tuesday morning.
This was said to be based on several arrangements ongoing now in London including flight timing from UK airports, hospital arrangements and other logistics limitations.
In light of these logistics challenges, the plan to bury Buhari in Daura today has now been shifted to tomorrow Tuesday, 15th July, 2025.
The Vice President, Senator Kassim Shettima, is already in London and has been briefed about the changes in plans and the VP has conveyed the development to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the time of this report.
President Tinubu, who had earlier planned a special Federal Executive Council meeting for Tuesday in honour of the late former President, his predecessor in office, is now considering to shift the FEC session to Wednesday.
The President’s plan initially was to personally attend the burial today in Daura and then preside over the special FEC meeting tomorrow. But now that the burial may no longer hold today, the President, who is still desirous of attending the burial now planned for tomorrow would likely shift the FEC session to honour Buhari to Wednesday from the earlier plan to hold it on Tuesday.