Tinubu undergoes surgery in US hospital – Report

Uncertainty surrounds the state of health of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu,[tps_title][/tps_title] as he is said to be hospitalised in Maryland, the United States.
An online news portal, SaharaReporters, reported that the influential politician had just undergone a surgical operation in the US hospital.
It stated that Tinubu, who had undertaken several medical trips this year alone, had a surgery last week and could be billed for another one over a yet-to-be-disclosed illness.
The APC national leader has not been part of official and party functions for a long time, amidst talks that he is being positioned to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
Saharareporters reported, “Tinubu is hospitalised in Maryland, US. His health is failing. He couldn’t participate in launching his Arewa library, and he couldn’t participate in the Local Government Area elections last week. He could not attend today’s APC congress due to health reasons.
“He had a surgery last week.”
In January 2021, Tinubu was also reported sick and hospitalised in Paris, France.
He had earlier complained of exhaustion and travelled out to rest before the news of his collapse gone viral.
He was flown to Paris for medical attention in the first week of January.
SaharaReporters had on June 15 reported that Tinubu was also in Paris, battling some old age illnesses.
It had also reported the absence of Tinubu during the one-day working visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the new Lagos-Ibadan rail among other projects in Lagos State.
SaharaReporters had learnt that the Presidency, against its former custom, refused to extend an invitation to Tinubu ahead of the visit which should make him feel welcome at the ceremony, and the camp of the APC leader felt embarrassed by the Presidency’s decision.

Top sources had also revealed that Tinubu did not feel comfortable to stay in Lagos during the Presidential visit in order to hide the growing battle between the two from public glare and he instead decided to embark on a journey.
Earlier, the President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, had tried to downplay the obvious rift between the two leaders and their camps, saying the interview the President granted to Arise Interview where he mentioned Lagos was not in reference to Buhari.
“You cannot sit there in Lagos, for instance, and decide on the fate of APC on zoning,” Buhari had said while responding to a question during the interview.
“The hope of this administration is to see APC last beyond it. Therefore, we should allow the party to decide. The restructuring of the party has begun from the bottom to the top with the membership card registration. Every member of the party must be involved. We will soon conduct our convention. No single member of the party will be allowed to go against the wish of the party.”
But Shehu maintained that there was no rift between the two leaders.