President Muhammadu Buhari is not the first head of state to seek medical care abroad, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said.
“As minister of information and culture today, if I have had a history of using a particular doctor in my life and I have confidence in him, I don’t think the fact that I am now a minister will change that,” the minister said in an interview with NAN in Washington on Wednesday.
Mr Mohammed berated those criticising the president’s action of seeking medical attention abroad, saying it is an inconsequential attempt to de-market him.
He said Buhari has the right to choose his physician and that “he is not the first head of state going abroad for treatment.”
He said: “Irrespective of the nationality of that doctor, it is my personal decision to choose the doctor to use.
“Like I explained to them, he is not the only head of state that has gone abroad for treatment.
“If Mr president has a personal physician for over 30 years, who understands his case and has been managing him, why will it be an issue of contention to seek medical attention from him.
“It will not be right to say that because of what people are going to say, he has to stay in Nigeria to seek treatment.”
