President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on holiday in the UK to see his doctors, on Monday played host to Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Abuja House, London.
Welby, it will be recalled, defended Buhari when UK Prime Minister David Cameron described Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt” in a private conversation with Queen Elizabeth in May ahead of an anti-corruption summit.
The queen did not respond to Cameron’s comment but the archbishop said: “But this particular president (Buhari) is actually not corrupt.”
Welby visited the president in company with Josiah Idowu-Fearon, a reverend and secretary general of the Anglican communion worldwide who is a Nigerian.
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Abuja House is the official residence of the Nigerian high commissioner to Britain.
Buhari is expected back in the country this week.
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