The National Leader of the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, Dan Nwanyanwu has recalled the time when he and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited the late MKO Abiola when he was in a Lagos hospital.
During one of those visits, which he said was frequent, he said Abiola told him that one of the reasons he wanted to be president was because of an emotional encounter with a chief surgeon at a London hospital who happened to be Nigerian.
Speaking on Arise News Prime Time, the politician said that President Tinubu was present when Abiola gave the account of his experience at the London hospital.
Nwanyanwu said that Abiola had vowed to build world class hospitals back home in Nigeria and bring home Nigerian doctors who are doing well in the field abroad.
Nwanyanwu lamented that monies meant to build standard hospitals in every state of the country are being stolen at the centre.
“Abiola had a swollen leg and he was admitted in the Eko hospital in Lagos.
“I was the only non-member of the family that was with him. The wife will bring food, leave it with me. I will serve him after eating, I will eat the remnants.
“Abiola called me one day, Comrade, do you know why I want to be president? I said, tell me, Mr. President. He said, ‘There was a time and went for surgery in a hospital to London, they wheeled me to the theater. Six doctors were in the room, three on my right, three on my left, all white people.