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Feb 23 2010

Yar’Adua’s Health: Group urges Nigerians to disregard Turai lies, deceit

BY MUHAMMAD KABIR:

Save the Nigeria Group has described as another deceit an lie the alleged statement of Hajia Turai Yar’Adua that King Abdullah Abul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia has barred access to her sick husband.
The group urged Nigerians to vehemently reject it for the good of the nation.
Daily Champion recalls that a delegation of the House of Representatives told the House that after its failure to see President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia, it met with his personal physician, Dr. Salisu Banye.
According to the team, Banye told them that the strictness applied in not allowing access to the sick President was on the order of King Abdul-Aziz, to protect Yar’Adua from the new disease called “Contact infectious”.
However, speaking with Daily Champion in Kano, a leader of the group who instituted the legal actions against the President and the national assembly seeking the invoke of section 144-145 to declare the President permanently incapacitated, Alhaji Faruk Aliyu, said they reject the news that Saudi Arabia barred Nigerians from seeing their President.
Faruk Aliyu who spoke through his lawyer Sani Gabas, said, “For once Dr. Salisu Banye had never come out to tell Nigerians that the President is sick or whatever is wrong with him, so he can not now come out to tell us that another country has refused our independent nation the right to see the President; he is still the President of this country and his personal physician has a lot of influence over his health like is done every where in the world.”
He said if at all it is true that the Saudi King had barred Nigerians from seeing the President, the Nigerian Embassy the federal government have the right to transfer the President to another country and hospital entirely where his personal security could be guaranteed.
“We can not understand why our President could remain in this kind of situation; anything can happen to him as he can be poisoned he could be killed,” wondering, “how can he be barred from all Nigerians; it is  a lie even if Turai cooked it  is  a lie it is yet another means of stopping fact finding missioners to Saudi Arabia, we will not take it.”
Gabas, said that their going to court was not to get sympathy for anybody but rather to protect the rule of law that is, “we have not gone to court to get sympathy for Yar’Adua or Goodluck Jonathan, we are in court to save the nation from the anarchy which is so imminent.”

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Feb 21 2010

Saudi King Prevented Reps From Seeing Yar’adua – Ndume

By Sule Lazarus, Abuja & Isa Umar Gusau:

The hazy public knowledge on the exact state of the bedridden president, Umaru Yar’adua, would have to linger till God-knows-when as the no access order on the president is strictly being enforced by the Saudi Arabian authorities under the close supervision of the kingdom’s king, Abdallah.

Sunday Trust gathered on good authority that even the president’s chief physician, Dr Salisu Banye, the first lady, Turai now have restricted access to the ailing Nigerian president because of the new ban regime imposed and enforced by the Saudi authorities.
Only last week, the seven-man delegation sent by the House of Representatives to see the president returned to the country without having a glimpse of him. The delegation from the House are: Baba Shehu Agaie, leader of the delegation, Mohammed Ali Ndume, Patrick Ikhariale, Maruf Fatai, Jibril Adamu and Nnenna Ukeje who did not make the trip.
One of the delegates, Hon Mohammed Ali Ndume told Sunday Trust that contrary to insinuations that Turai barred people from accessing the president, it is the Saudi king who imposed the order and is enforcing it to save the president from ‘contact infection’, a new ailment that hit the president after he came out of the intensive care unit of the Jeddah hospital.
According to him, having waited for three days without seeing the president, the delegate sought to see the doctor attending to the president or the president’s personal physician, Dr Salisu Banye.
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He said, “we met the Chief Physician of the President, Dr Banye, with the Nigerian Ambassador Aminchi. So, we had a meeting that day (Wednesday). It was then that he (Banye) informed us that actually, what happened was that when the president came and he was taken into Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after his medical attention and he was recovering, he was transferred to a ward where he had access to people. Unfortunately, because of the frequent contact with people, he had what they called a “contact infection”, which is an infection as a result of contact between him and the visitors. And he had a bad experience of relapse. In fact, they said the relapse was life threatening.”
The lawmaker said Banye told the delegates that when the news of Yar’adua’s new case got to King Abdallah, he came up with the new access regime that restricted everybody from seeing the president, including his wife, Turai and his private physician Banye.
Ndume recounted that, “So the doctor (Banye) said that when he (Yar’adua) had that experience, the information got to King Abdallah himself, and he (the King) now detailed his own personal physician from Riyadh to come and take over; and that if he gets out of the relapse situation, nobody should see him. That was where the problem started. He gave that instruction and since then, not everybody has unfettered access to him, not even his wife.”
It would be recalled that the delegate were billed to submit their report last week, but it was not clear at the time of this report whether the delegates submitted their report.
Turn to pages 14, 15 for full story.

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