Danbaba Suntai and family in Germany
Contrary to a recent media speculation that the ailing Taraba State Governor, Alhaji Danbaba Suntai had fully recovered and had been discharged from the hospital in Germany, the state Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar has denied the report, saying that Suntai’s state of health has deteriorated.
According to him, the governor who has been in a German hospital since November receiving treatment due to injuries he sustained when a small aircraft, Cessna 208, he was piloting crash-landed about 30 miles to the Yola airport in Adamawa State can neither talk nor see.
In the last few days, Mr. Suntai’s propagandists have flooded Nigerian dailies with photos of the governor who is hospitalized in Hanover, Germany.
The photos depict the governor sitting on a special support chair and showing no emotion. His wife and friend, who are also in the picture, are seen smiling in the direction of a baby delivered by Mrs. Suntai.
In fact, some top government officials loyal to the governor had after a recent visit to him in the German hospital claimed that Suntai has been discharged from the hospital and would resume duty in no distant time.
Umar, who just retuned from Germany, dismissed the claim, affirming that Suntai was still receiving treatment in the shores of Germany.
He said: “I went to Germany to see my boss; the first day when I went it was his time to take tea because there in Germany the weather was very cold, then I went back to my hotel room. The next day I went to the hospital when my boss saw me he then smiled and waved at me he did not speak with me and there was no message from him to the people of Taraba.”
The Acting Governor however said he doesn’t know the origin of the photographs that flooded the media recently.
“I have concluded arrangements for my commissioner for information Emmanuel Bello to travel to Germany to see the governor and it is expected that when he is there all what the people are calling for a tele-conference with the governor would be done by the commissioner I believe he is going to speaks with all of you here with the permission of the doctors” he said.
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