Tinubu not down with stroke in American hospital …on vacation, says aide

Speculations that Leader of the All

Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola

Tinubu is down with stroke in an American

Hospital, has been described as a wicked

rumor.


Some online blogs had published reports

suggesting that the health of Tinubu, who left

Nigeria few weeks ago was gone from bad to

worse.

According to the reports, which quoted a

source close to the Tinubu family, the health

of the APC leader may have worsened due to

recent discovery of cancer

.

The cancer, the source claims, had reached

advanced stage before it was diagnosed by the

medical team, adding that the recent stroke

only added to the seriousness of the situation.

It was alleged that Tinubu in his current state

has not been able to recognize close family

relatives who had come to pay him a visit,

heightening fears that the self-styled

godfather of southwest politics was exhibiting

symptoms of dementia.

But an aide of the former Lagos State

Governor, Sunday Dare, in an electronic

message to said the

speculations are unfounded and fallacious.

He said Tinubu was away on vacation and

would be back to shame his detractors.

According to Dare the rumor deserved no

attention because it was concocted by agents

of darkness and idle minds.

Dare said “ If you believe this then you will

fall for anything. This is a lie from the pit of

hell. An unfounded and fallacious rumor

concocted by agents of darkness and idle

minds.”

“Ask if they have proof. The day he returns I

will invite you to welcome him. It is quiet

amusing that such a wicked rumour that

deserves no attention but to be trashed is

even being pursued. It is those that think he

has a stroke that suffer from a stroke of the

mind” he said

Another source said “Yes, it is true Asiwaju

is out of the country. But he is on vacation.

He was in the United States for some days,

Los Angeles I guess. He then proceeded to

London.It is normal for him at this time to

observe his summer break.”

Efforts by pointblanknews.com correspondent

in the United States to locate the residence of

Tinubu proved abortive, as Dare did not

disclose.