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Only Buhari can explain why he went abroad for treatment - Minister of health

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The minister of health, Prof Isaac
Adewole states that President Buhari might
have travelled abroad on the advice of his
doctors or as a matter of choice
- The minister however, says Buhari and
his doctors were the only ones who could
give valid reasons why the president went
abroad for treatment

The minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole,
has said President Muhammadu Buhari and
his doctors were the only set of people who
could explain why the president chose to
seek medical treatment abroad.

The minister made the statement on Monday,
February 13, when speaking with the press
on the sidelines of the inauguration of the
maternity building at the Obafemi Awolowo
University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife,
the Punch reports.
He said the president might have travelled
abroad on the advice of his doctors or as a
matter of choice.
Adewole said: “I won’t describe it as a large
volume but we still have people travelling
abroad. One, it is a matter of choice and
secondly, there is what is called bonding
between a doctor and his patient, irrespective
of where the doctor is and that creates a
problem; the patient may not want to see a “If a patient is using a particular doctor and
that doctor is not around, he may likely wait.
You don’t want to be examined by a new
doctor, you don’t want to start all over again.
It is one of the reasons and you can’t take it
away.”
The minister however noted that Buhari and
his doctors were the ones who could give
reasons why the president went abroad for
treatment.
new doctor. The President is the best person to speak on
this; he is our leader and also a private citizen.
He is entitled to make a choice which will be
influenced largely by the advice of his doctor,
the minister said.
In a related news, former governor of Lagos
state and national leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, has said only people that are
crazy will say he was not with President
Muhammadu Buhari in London.
In a statement on Monday, Tinubu, a former
Governor of Lagos State, said mischief
makers were behind the news that he did not
visit the President.
The statement, signed by his spokesperson,
Tunde Rahman, said Tinubu was in London
with the former Interim National Chairman of
the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, to visit Buhari
and that they met the President at the Abuja
House.

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