EXCLUSIVE: Mamman Daura, Buhari's Powerful Nephew, Among Prominent Faces Absent At President's Daughter's Wedding

 

Despite being scheduled to be father of the day during the marriage between Hanan, one among the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, and Mohammed Turad, son of a former lawmaker from Kano State, Mamman Daura, a nephew and shut confidant of the President, was absent at the occassion.

NaijaGistReporters gathered that Daura’s absence won't be unconnected together with his trip to uk for medical treatment over an undisclosed ailment despite claims by the Presidency that he travelled for leisure.

Mamman Daura

The online newspaper had in August reported how he was flown during a private jet to the united kingdom after exhibiting respiratory difficulties with symptoms almost like Coronavirus.

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The former journalist, who is an integral member of the 'Cabal', a gaggle of influential individuals around President Buhari, who help him make key decisions, is claimed to possess had a history of renal crisis and had regularly visited the West for medical attention.

A source, who confirmed Daura's absence at the ceremony, told SaharaReporters that the event was held inside a hall adjacent the President's office rather than the banquet hall usually used for top calibre social events.

The source further disclosed that the marriage had 80 persons attending .

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The low number of guests, it had been gathered, was partly thanks to the Coronavirus scare earlier within the week within the Presidential Villa.

On Wednesday, SaharaRepoters revealed how some guests for the marriage were declining the invitation over fear of contracting Coronavirus especially after it emerged that President Buhari’s closest aide and Senior Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Sarki Abba, had recently recovered from the virus. See Also 

Abba, who has since resumed duties after recovering from the virus, was considered still unsafe to mingle with others inside the Presidential Villa by some persons including the primary Lady.

Mrs Buhari also opposed the thought of Daura being a neighborhood of the event over his health status but her husband insisted that he must not be stopped attending and even went ahead to designate him father of the day.

This situation sent panic among some guests, who chose to not attend the ceremony and risk their health. 

The absence of Daura at the occasion has remained a serious point among major political players especially considering his closeness to President Buhari.