Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has shrugged off a number of claims which say that the Nigerian president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in a sick mattress.
The well being standing of Bola Tinubu has a lot been deliberated on just lately, with rumours circulating that he’s unwell and receiving medical therapy.
Nonetheless, Kalu, whereas making a comment throughout a celebration of Mass in Abuja to mark his 63rd birthday, dismissed the declare stating that the president-elect is just not sick.
“Our President-elect is just not sick,” he acknowledged unequivocally. “It isn’t true that he’s sick. I don’t wish to say a lot. He’s in good well being; he’s himself.” Kalu went on to recount a dialog he had with a colleague about Tinubu’s well being”.
The previous governor of Abia state whereas talking mentioned one among his colleagues mentioned yesterday he heard that the President-elect, Tinubu, was within the hospital.
“I instructed him the incoming president was not within the hospital, it isn’t true that he’s within the hospital. We argued. I instructed him the President-elect was okay”, he mentioned.
The rumours about Tinubu’s well being started to flow into on March 22 after the 2023 presidential elections when reviews claimed that he had been secretly flown out of Nigeria for medical therapy.
Tinubu was introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, because the president-elect having polled a complete 8,805,420 votes whereas Atiku gathered 6,984,290 votes making him the second place with Peter Obi following intently with 6,093,962 votes.
Tinubu had reportedly taken ailing after months of uninterrupted political campaigning. Nonetheless, his media staff shortly denied these reviews, stating that the President-elect solely travelled to Paris and London to relaxation after these a number of sequence of campaigns previous to the 2023 presidential election in February.
Regardless of these denials, Nigerian residents proceed to take a position about Tinubu’s well being and whereabouts.