The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kogi State Chapter, yesterday described the status of health of Governor Idris Wada as a mere media propaganda.
The party said the “hurried discharge” from a private hospital in Abuja was beguiling, knavish” as well as a “clandestine and roguish tactics” aimed at conscripting his benefactor, former Governor Ibrahim Idris who has been living in Lugard House since handover to continue to rule Kogi by proxy.
Ibrahim Idris, the party added, does not want Wada to hand over power to Yomi Awoniyi his deputy because “he wants to exploit the situation to continue to be in-charge of the government apparatus by proxy, more so, that the state government is expecting its share of the excess crude proceeds for the last quarter of 2012 and he would not want Awoniyi to be in the picture of what Wada pays to him monthly as return on investment.”
The Kogi State Chairman of the ACN, Alhaji Haddy Ametuo, in the statement made available to journalists in Abuja said: “It is a shame that, Mr Wada feels he can fool Kogites and by extension, Nigerians by claiming to have been discharged from hospital when we have it on good authority that he was discharged against the advice of his private physician at the hospital.
“This is reminiscent of the manner he left the University College Hospital, Ibadan, on the 28th April 1976, where he was being treated for a case of mental disorder and acute schizophrenia, even though he was far from well.
“As a party, we have it on good authority that, travel plans have been concluded to fly Mr Wada out of Nigeria for further treatment despite sly claims by his new media manager cum private physician, Dr. Felix Ogedengbe of Cedar Crest Hospitals, Abuja.
“In a modern democracy, there is no need for this level of litany of lies and deceit.
“One minute, Wada’s spokesman will tell Nigerians that Wada ate three square meals and walked around in clutches 24 hours after he had the surgery.
“The next minute, the Doctor who suddenly emerged as the new spokesman for the state government informed Nigerians that it will take about six months for the fracture to heal.
“Even a medical student knows that, a compound fracture that will take six months to heal in a twelve year old child, will take as much as a year and a half to heal in a 72-year-old Wada.”
The ACN also advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to be carried away by the “cosmetic smile” from the ailing governor but rather should prevail on him to take off time to get well.
Ametuo said: “As a party, we call on President Jonathan not to be swayed by the cosmetic smile on the face of Wada when he visited him at Cedar Crest Hospitals.
