Medical Emergency: President Yardua Breaks Down, Mike Adenuga too, Flown Abroad

PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA BOARDING THE PLANE ON MONDAY EVENING. Photo: NAN.

Abuja (THEWILL) - Nigeria's leader, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua left Abuja on Monday evening in a medical emergency to meet with his doctors in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. Our Investigations show that President Yar'Adua's condition detororiated over-night and was advised to fly to Jedda by his doctors.

The president is suffering from a chronic kidney disease called Churg Strauss disease. This will be the presedent's third medical visit to Saudi Arabia in 6 months. He was also flown to Germany during his presidential campaign in 2007 after he fell ill from the stress of the presidential campaign. 

The President was earlier scheduled to present the 2010 budget before the Senate and the House of Representatives this week. Yardua had held a meeting over the weekend with the leadership of the legislature in order to resolve the squabbles between them.

Segun Adeniyi, Aso Rock media adviser, said in a note that Yar'Adua had sent copies of the budget to the Senate President and Speaker of the House.

Our source says Vice- President Goodluck Jonathan was briefed this morning on the president's sudden ill health.

The president's health has been a source of concern even before he took the oath of office. Insiders say that despite concerns over his health, the president's family, advisers and benefactors are poised on having him finish his term and run again in 2011.   

Adeniyi did not confirm when the president is due back to the country.

In another development, Globacom owner, Michael Adenuga Jr. is reported to have slumped in his Victoria Island office/home in Lagos on Thursday, November 19, 2009.

Sources say the billionaire was rushed to the Reddington hospital in Victoria Island before he was flown to a United Kingdom hospital over the weekend. The cause of Adenuga’s sudden illness has not been made public.

A Globacom media personnel would not comment officially on the matter in a conference call. 

Adenuga, fondly called “The Bull” by his fiends, is owner of Globacom, Conoil and Equitorial Trust bank Plc, which the Central Bank of Nigeria returned to him recently to recapitalize and restructure its board.