The remains of former President Muhammadu Buhari arrived at the Umar Musa Yar’adua Airport in Katsina State on Tuesday. A delegation led by President Bola Tinubu was at the airport to receive the body of the late former President, which was conveyed by a Nigerian Air Force aircraft.
At the airport are governors, ministers, National Assembly members, and other government officials. Buhari’s body departed London in the United Kingdom for Daura, hometown of the ex-President, ahead of a state burial in his honour.
Tinubu received the remains of the former President in Katsina, ahead of his final interment. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Monday during a press briefing in Abuja.
According to Idris, a news correspondent, the body of the former president, who died on Sunday in a London hospital, is expected to arrive in Nigeria by noon on Tuesday.