It Doesn’t Make Sense To Criticise Buhari’s Medical Trips Abroad – Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says those excoriating President Muhammadu Buhari for seeking medical care in foreign countries are trying downplay the success of his administration.

The minister made this known in an interview with NAN in Washington on Thursday.

Mohammed said the President is at liberty to choose his physician and that “he is not the first head of state going abroad for treatment’’.

“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,” Mohammed 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 have 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.

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“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.”

The minister slammed those attacking the president’s action of seeking medical attention abroad, describing their actions as inconsequential attempt to de-market him.

He said in spite of the challenges, the nation’s health sector is not in comatose to warrant a vote of no confidence on the sector.

Mohammed added that even with the state of the sector, the World Health Organisation (WHO) rated Nigeria fourth in terms of national response to COVID-19.

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