Contrary to a recent media speculation 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.
Umar, who just returned 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
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