President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday visited Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, at the Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, where he is receiving treatments for the injuries he sustained in an auto crash last Friday.
The President, who arrived at the private hospital in Garki II with a few aides, was received by the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, and the hospital’s Chief Medical Director (CMD), Felix Ogedengbe, before he was ushered into the governor’s ward.
The president, who was dressed in cream traditional attire with a red cap, spent about 15 minutes with Mr Wada before emerging from the private ward.
Though President Jonathan did not speak to the press, his cheerful mien as he greeted the hospital staff and journalists around, beaming with smile was an obvious show of satisfaction with the pace of recovery of the governor, who broke a thighbone in the accident.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital confirmed the positive disposition of the president in a brief chat with journalists insisting that the governor was doing well after a surgery and would be discharged from the hospital “in a few days.”
Dr Ogedengbe, the governor “is already doing step-climbing. He is doing very well at the moment. You know it was a severe injury.
“We have continued to watch out for any other problem that he might have but at this stage, we have not seen any other problem at all. From the medical point of view, he is quite healthy and should be ready to go back home in a couple of days.
“I can only at this stage tell you that he will be ready to go back home in a few days, but I won’t be able to tell you specifically which day.
He is not going to be in the hospital for weeks, he does not need to be here for weeks.”
Mr Wada’s Special Adviser on Media and Strategy, Jacob Edi, also told journalists: “The governor is hale and hearty and of sound mind. He has undergone surgery for the broken bone in his thigh and the surgery was successful.
He has been receiving high profile visitors and apparently to cap it up is the visit of the President.”
Mr Edi reiterated that the governor would not be flown abroad for further medical treatment as he was receiving adequate medical attention at the hospital.
On the reported fear of the governor’s security in the hospital, Mr Edi said “from the eyes of men, the hospital could be small and there could be the fear of security, but security belongs to God. We believe that God will protect him.”
Last Friday, the governor’s convoy was involved in an accident which killed his Aide-de-Camp died on the spot.
