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Vice President Atiku Abubakar will be flown to a British hospital to repair a torn ligament he sustained while exercising on a treadmill machine in the gym on Sunday morning.
The Vice President who had chattered a private plane for the trip will travel on a presidential jet instead. President Olusegun Obasanjo made the jet available after he was informed of the Vice Presidents accident by his chief of staff.
According to the media adviser to the Vice President, Garba Shehu, the President made the presidential plane available for the Vice presidents trip after he was informed of the accident involving his deputy and the need for him to have immediate surgery.
We had already chattered a plane for the trip but when the president got wind of it because we have to get landing right through the Chief of staff. When the President knew of the accident, he called the Vice President and offered him the use of the presidential plane."
"We have doctors who can perform the surgery at the Abuja national hospital but they do not have the right equipment." Shehu said.
The Vice President is billed to depart 2am Monday morning and his expected to be back to the country a day after the surgery which supposed to last thirty minutes. |
Posted by Robot| 11.03.2007 19:43