ARE NIGERIAN LEADERS SUPER HUMAN BEINGS THAT CANNOT BE SICK IN ALL REALITY?

Nigerian public elected and appointed officials as well as their immediate family members always present themselves to their fellow Nigerians as super human beings that can never be sick or even die. They present an image that is larger than life. A life that is above all human sicknesses and diseases. They always hide their health histories from the public and even deny their publicly known medical records, hospitalizations, medical treatments or any medical procedures that were done on them either in Nigeria or in the foreign nations. The long-list of their decades of medical denials is so long in Nigeria beginning from the IBB who was holed up in a military hospital in France for 30 days in the 1980s without any public disclosure of the nature of his illness.

The late Sanni Abacha was rumored to be nursing an undisclosed ailment that never saw the light of the day till his sudden death in power. Olusegun Obasanjo was said to be diabetic and hypertensive with any public disclosure till today. The late President Yar'Adua never publicly disclosed to the Nigerians that he was sick nor the true nature of his illness. The current Nigerian first lady Mrs Goodluck denied any known illness or foreign hospitalization after she was away from Nigeria to Germany last year for about six weeks and then returned back to Nigeria to celebrate a $3 million resurrection thanksgiving service at Aso Rock villa in Abuja. The health histories of the Nigerian leaders are truly based on secrecies, cover-ups, denials, lies and the dirty game of hiding and seeking in all reality.