Amid speculation about the health stability of Nigeria’s leading presidential candidates, former federal lawmaker Shehu Sani has renewed orders for medical tests on all presidential candidates.
Sani, who made the call via her Twitter account on Thursday, challenged the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) over the process.
The former deputy, who asked for the results to be made public, said the tests would dispel speculation about the candidates’ state of health.
He wrote: “The Nigerian Medical Association NMA and the Nurses Association NANNM should invite all presidential candidates to undergo full medical tests and make the result public. This will resolve the controversy over the health status of the contestants.”
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Reports surfaced last week that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate was scheduled to travel abroad for a medical check-up.
Reacting to the development, Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan dismissed the reports as false.
Ologbondiyan demanded that the media focus on the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who he said deserved more medical attention.
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