President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, CoS, Alhaji Abba Kyari, has been flown out of the country for urgent medical attention over a critical health condition, which has made him absent from official and public activities in recent weeks, TheNewsGuru.com learnt.
Kyari who is said to have been suffering from an undisclosed ailment, reportedly, slumped and was rushed to an undisclosed private hospital in Abuja where some specialist doctors attended to him.
He was thereafter flown out of the country on an emergency order by the President, after observing his deteriorating health condition.
It is certainly not the best of times for the COS nor the nation’s administration as TheNewsGuru.com gathered from a reliable source that the relationship between Kyari and his boss, President Buhari, has worsened in the last few weeks after more allegations of graft against the Chief of Staff surfaced, a development many believe runs against the anti-corruption campaign of the President Buhari-led administration.
Kyari who was appointed by President Buhari as his Chief of Staff on August 27, 2015, has had to face the challenge of an allegation of N500m gratification in September 2016, from MTN to help facilitate the reduction of a $5.2bn fine placed on MTN by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
His accusers also claim he used his office to engage in multiple private deals. In October 2016, President Buhari directed the probe of the allegation, a move which many say was to validate the anti-corruption campaign of the government. This weight and stress some claim, can cause some health condition.
Following the recent state of Kyari’s health, the source said, President Buhari made enquiries and the feedback revealed that he (Kyari) was not responding to treatments, which prompted the president to order an intensive medical care for him abroad.
It was gathered that a long convoy was observed leaving the villa forthe airport where an Air Ambulance was already on standby for departure to an undisclosed destination for further medical attention.
Efforts to get the reaction of the presidency on the development, proved abortive as the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, refused to comment on the issue.
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