Governor Wada to be discharged soon

Idris Wada, governor of Nigeria’s central state of Kogi, who was critically injured in an accident a few days ago, will soon be discharged to go home.

Dr. Felix Ogedengbe, Chief Medical Director of the CedarCrest Hospital in Abuja, where the governor has been on admission since last Friday told newsmen today that the governor was doing well after a surgery and would be discharged from hospital “in a few days time”.

“He 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 he 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,” he stressed.

Mr Jacob Edi, the Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Strategy, said the governor had undergone a successful surgery to fix the broken bone in his thigh and also expressed optimism that he would soon be discharged.

Both Edi and Ogedengbe spoke with newsmen on the heels of the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the ailing Governor.

Jonathan, who was accompanied by some of his aides, was received at the private hospital, by the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu.

Also on ground to receive him was the hospital’s CMD.

Edi reiterated that the governor would not be flown abroad for further medical treatment as he was receiving adequate medical attention at the hospital.

He said that the governor had confidence in the nation’s health system.

On the governor’s security in the hospital, Edi said although the hospital was small, “his security is in the hands of God”.

“We believe that God will protect him.”

The governor’s Aide-de-Camp died on the spot when the governor’s convoy was involved in an accident, while returning to Lokoja, the state capital, from an official assignment on 28 December.