John Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari is “recovering in a robust manner” from his illness.

Oyegun was speaking two days after Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti State, claimed that the President was on life support.

“We are glad to inform you that President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering in a very robust manner,” NAN quoted him as telling journalists at the end of a meeting between the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and state governors elected on its platform.

“We hope he takes it easy and when he comes back, I have no doubt at all that we will have a new and active period of activities.”

He refused to directly respond to Fayose’s claim but said only the President’s doctors abroad could decide when he would be fit to return to the country.

“If I respond (to Fayose), I will be dignifying him,” he said.

“At the appropriate time, people will answer him; at the appropriate level; at the appropriate time. He is in a different world altogether.”

Oyegun said the party leadership continues to place confidence in Buhari.

He added that the meeting discussed the nation, particularly the ongoing agitation for restructuring and inciting statements from different parts of the country.

“Such inciting statements are not good for the health of the nation so they have to be stopped,” he said.