Tinubu Back Home After Three-Month Medical Trip
The All
Progressives Congress National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria
after three-month medical trip to the United Kingdom, where he underwent a knee
surgery on Friday .
He
returned to Lagos barely 24 hours after the incumbent Governor of Lagos State,
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, inaugurated the South-West Agenda 2023 (SWAGA ‘23), a group
rooting for Tinubu as the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 election.
Though
Tinubu had yet to declare his intention to contest any office in 2023, there
have been rumours and veiled indications that he might be interested in the
exalted seat.
Members
of the House of Representatives from the North who endorsed Tinubu’s candidacy
when they visited him in the UK recently also lent credence to his purported
interest.
While
he was in London, he was visited by a number of politicians, including the
President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); Speaker, House of
Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Governors Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Dapo
Abiodun (Ogun), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), and Kayode
Fayemi (Ekiti).
Others
who visited Tinubu included a former governor of Ogun State and incumbent
Senator representing Ogun Central, Ibikunle Amosun; former governor of Borno
State and Senator representing Borno Central, Kashim Shettima; and member
representing Gubio, Kaga and Magumeri Federal Constituency of Borno State,
Usman Zanna.
Also
on the list are Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat; Speaker, Lagos
State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa; Chief of Staff to Lagos State
Governor, Tayo Ayinde; Deputy Chief of Staff to Lagos State Governor, Gboyega
Soyannwo; Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Education, Tokunbo Wahab;
and a former APC National Legal Adviser, Muiz Banire.
Tinubu
arrived Lagos on Friday evening unannounced, two days earlier than his reported
plan to return to the country.
A
statement from the Tinubu Media Office on Friday, titled, ‘Asiwaju is back’,
said the ex-governor underwent surgery on his right knee as well as rigorous
post-surgery physiotherapy, adding that he was now fully healed.
The
statement read in part, “Contrary to unfounded rumour, he underwent no other
surgical procedures and contemplates none in the future. His recuperation has
been without complication and ahead of the schedule by the attending surgeon.
“He
has returned fully healed from the knee surgery and fully committed to doing
his modest part of advancing the cause of progressive democratic good
governance throughout our beloved nation.
“Asiwaju,
first and foremost, would like to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for taking
the time to visit him in London to express his wishes for a speedy recovery
from the knee operation.
“He
is also not forgetting others who would have loved to visit him but couldn’t
make it and his numerous friends, associates, supporters and well-wishers who
have been with him in prayers and supplications to Allah.”
Meanwhile,
SWAGA 23 has said Tinubu already has 12 million votes in the bag ahead of the
2023 presidential election.
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