Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will leave Africa's most populous nation for around eight weeks from January 26 for a series of medical checks, the Nigerian Business Day newspaper said on Friday."He is travelling for medical check-up and the trip will last for eight weeks," the newspaper quoted a special assistant in the presidency as saying.Officials in the presidency were not immediately available to comment on the report.
Yar'Adua, known to have a chronic kidney problem, travelled to Saudi Arabia for more than two weeks last August officially for a Muslim pilgrimage.But senior Nigerian officials and a medical source in Saudi Arabia said he had received treatment in Jeddah during the trip, raising fears about his fitness to govern.
- Reuters
Why would our leaders continue to seek medical treatments abroad? The answer is that they refused to organize quality health care for Nigerians so they rather spend millions of dollars on treating mosquito bites abroad while Nigerians are languishing in poverty and diseases.
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