Former presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, has said that former President, Muhammadu Buhari, could have been long dead if he had used Nigerian hospitals.
Naijaonpoint reports that Adesina made this known during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday.
Adesina said that those criticising the death of Buhari in a London hospital should understand that the former president had always used London hospitals before he assumed office in 2015.
According to Adesina, Nigerian hospitals lacked the facilities and expertise needed for Buhari’s treatment, and the former President needed to be alive to effect any change in the country.
He said, “Buhari had always had his medicals in London even when he was not in office. This is not like when he was president alone. Then you have to be alive to get certain things corrected or changed in your country.
“If the president had decided, he would do his medicals in Nigeria, just as for a show up or something, he could have long been dead because there may not be the expertise needed for him in the country. But he needed to be alive to lead the country to a point where we would have that expertise. So those who talk about going abroad, they don’t know that a man needs to be alive first before he can effect a change.”