Ojukwu’s health no longer in danger
The minister of state for foreign
affairs, Idi Hong, said on Sunday that Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, currently
in a London hospital, was no longer “in grievous danger.” “With the
state in which I have seen him, not as a minister now, but also as
somebody with a background of medicine, I think he is stable. “He is
not in any serious or grievous danger because the care is up to
standard,” Mr. Hong told the Europe correspondent of the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in London after visiting Mr. Ojukwu. “With the statistics
and figures I have seen so far, I think we will say that he is really
improving.
The vital statistics of the human person is within the
normal range and very soon he will recover,” he added. Mr. Hong,
accompanied by Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner to the UK, Dozie
Nwanna, had earlier delivered a special message from President Goodluck
Jonathan to Bianca, Ojukwu’s wife. Mr. Ojukwu was flown to London after
spending three days in the intensive care unit of the University of
Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, after he suffered a stroke.
Mrs.
Ojukwu, who described Mr. Jonathan as a great leader, expressed
gratitude for the message, saying: “It is a sign of a great leader with
a great deal of empathy not just for a single individual but for the
people he seeks to lead,” she said.
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