Tinubu returns, says he was never ill

A former governor of Lagos State, and national leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who was reported to have travelled for treatment in a London hospital, has said that story about his health was the mother of all lies.

Tinubu who returned back to the country on Thursday night, said he only went for a five-week vacation outside the country.


On his arrival at the airport, a smiling Tinubu said, “I am solid, fit as a fiddle. I never needed Panadol, except when I visited my friend, the dentist.”

Rumour had been making the rounds that the APC chief was battling an undisclosed ailment, which necessitated his travelling abroad for treatments.

Indeed, he had on September 17, 2014 on his twitter page @AsiwajuTinubu disclaimed with the wave of a hand, stories of having suffered a stroke, even going the length of praying for the “rumour-mongers because they do not know what they are doing”.

May God forgive the rumour mongers b/c they do not know what they are doing. Those with evil thoughts towards me, God will guide them right

— Bola Ahmed Tinubu (@AsiwajuTinubu) September 17, 2014

The story about my health is the mother of all lies.Do not believe it. I was on my usual holidays. I thank all well wishers.I return soon. — Bola Ahmed Tinubu (@AsiwajuTinubu) September 17, 2014

The Peoples Democratic Party, however, believes that the Lagos State Government, and the APC are hiding facts about the state of health of Tinubu who is a rallying point of the opposition.

The PDP had in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, said Lagosians were interested in knowing the true state of health of the former governor “whose medical bill is being paid with their taxes.”

“We wish the former governor, Bola Tinubu, quick recovery as we are made to know from the grapevine that he is ill and in a hospital outside the country. We also feel that the family and the state government should have the obligation to let Lagosians know the actual state of his health.

“It will not be a bad thing if the former governor appears on television or speaks on phone for broadcast. Indeed Lagosians are humanitarian and would readily support him in prayers. Such honest disclosure will also dispel rumours of his death or paralysis that is being spread around,” the PDP said.