President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met with some leaders and governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in London.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.

Adesina said the delegation was led by the National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.

The president left Abuja for London on May 7 for follow-up on his health and has spent over 70 days without any public appearance.

Adesina, who spoke to the delegation while they were with the president, via telephone, quoted one of them, Gov. Rochas Okorocha as saying that Buhari was ”very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour”.

”The governor said that the party delegation spent more than an hour with Buhari over lunch, and that it was very clear from the discussions that he followed developments at home very closely.

”He said that the president was delighted to receive the delegation and asked each governor about affairs in his state.

”He also said that Buhari asked the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, about the state of the railways.

”When asked to react to all the negative things being said about him, the president just laughed, describing such negative reports as lies.”

The statement said Governors Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna and Yahaya Bello of Kogi, were also in the delegation.