President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday left the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja for the United Kingdom to undergo another medical check-up at the behest of his doctor.

According to a statement released on Monday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President who had just returned to Abuja from his native Daura town in Katsina State on Monday after participating in local elections of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said he would be back in the country on Saturday, May 12.

Buhari had spent over 100 days in 2017 in London where he had gone for medical leave over an undisclosed ailment. The only ailment hes publicly disclosed was an ear infection for which he sought treatment in London in 2016.

The President spent well over a week last month in London to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting.