2 Days after President Goodluck Jonathan
suddenly fell ill and was forced to skip a
meeting Thursday in London with an
investment advisory group, his PR handlers
today disclosed the nature of his illness.
A statement by Reuben Abati revealed that the
President was indisposed as a result of ‘serious
abdominal pains’, which in medical terms is
called ‘acute abdomen’.
Doctors who examined and treated President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the sudden onset
of severe abdominal pains in London have
certified him fully fit to return home and
continue his official duties.
After a thorough evaluation of the President’s
symptoms, medically referred to as acute
abdomen, the doctors concluded that no
surgical intervention was required.
President Jonathan will therefore return to
Abuja Sunday evening and will be at work in
the Presidential Villa as usual on Monday.
The President is scheduled to depart from
London at about 1400 hours GMT and arrive at
the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport at about 2000 hours.
Earlier today, the president’s media adviser, Dr.
Reuben Abati described as fiction the story that
he fell ill in London after a “heavy birthday party
thrown to celebrate his 56th birthday” at the
Intercontinental Hotel.
Abati, in a press statement expressed regrets
that despite the open admittance of the
president’s ill health in London, some online
organs went ahead to make what he called ”
scurrilous distortions of the facts of the
President’s indisposition”.
“The truth”, said Abati, ” is that President
Jonathan observed his 56th birthday
anniversary quietly. For part of the day, he was
airborne, in transit between Abuja and London.
On arrival in London, he spent the rest of the
day in the privacy of his hotel room. It has
never been his custom to celebrate birthday
anniversaries and no exception was made this
year. ”
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