Nigerians overjoyed as Pres. Buhari returns to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday evening, April 19, arrived in Abuja from Saudi Arabia after an eight-day official visit to the Kingdom.

It was gathered that the president’s NAF 001 Boeing 737 jet arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 5:08 pm.

The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement said: “He arrived in Abuja after nearly seven hours for a four to five-hour Jeddah-Abuja flight due to the ongoing situation in Sudan that warrants the avoidance of the country’s entire airspace by air traffic.

The rerouted aircraft flew from Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Central African Republic, Cameroon and eventually Nigeria.”