Contrary to a recent media
speculations that the ailing Taraba State Governor, Alhaji Danbaba Suntai had
fully recovered and had been discharged from the hospital in Germany, the state
Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar has denied the report, saying that Suntai's
state of health has deteriorated.
According to him, the
governor, who has been in a German hospital since November receiving treatment
due to injuries he sustained when a small aircraft, Cessna 208 he was piloting
crash-landed about 30 miles to the Yola airport in Adamawa State, can neither
talk nor see.
In the last few days, Mr.
Suntai's propagandists have flooded Nigerian dailies with photos of the governor
who is hospitalized in Hanover, Germany.
The photos depict the
governor sitting on a special support chair and showing no emotion. His wife
and friend, who are also in the picture, are seen smiling in the direction of a
baby delivered by Mrs. Suntai.
In fact, some top government
officials loyal to the governor had after a recent visit to him in the German
hospital claimed that Suntai has been discharged from the hospital and would
resume duty in no distant time.
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Umar, who just retuned from
Germany, dismissed the claim, affirming that Suntai was still receiving
treatment in the shores of Germany.
He said: "I went to
Germany to see my boss; the first day when I went it was his time to take tea
because there in Germany the weather was very cold, then I went back to my
hotel room. The next day I went to the hospital when my boss saw me he then
smiled and waved at me he did not speak with me and there was no message from
him to the people of Taraba."
The Acting Governor however
said he doesn’t know the origin of the photographs that flooded the media
recently.
"I have concluded
arrangements for my commissioner for information Emmanuel Bello to travel to
Germany to see the governor and it is expected that when he is there all what
the people are calling for a tele-conference with the governor would be done by
the commissioner I believe he is going to speaks with all of you here with the
permission of the doctors," he said
hmmmmm
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