I Want To Go Home, Ailing Taraba Governor Danbaba Suntai Tells Doctors Ailing Taraba State Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, is eager to return home after about eight months in German and United States hospitals. The governor, who survived an air crash in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, last October – he was the pilot – has told his doctors to allow him return home, Taraba State officials who visited him in the United States told The NATION yesterday [Jun 23]. The officials added that doctors, particularly the physiotherapist handling Suntai, advised that it would be unwise to fly him back now. They urged him to stay a little more and get “full recovery” before returning to continue with his job. They also reportedly advised against receiving too many visitors who are also warned against discussing politics with him. Contrary to claims, the ailing governor was never taken to the John Hopkins University Hospital in the United States, Suntai has been receiving physiotherapy/ treatment at a clinic residence in New York since leaving the German Hospital in Hannover in March. The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Taraba State Specialist Hospital, who is also the governor’s physician, Prof. Zakari Yusuf Aliyu, had suggested that Suntai be evacuated from the German hospital to the U.S.’ John Hopkins because, according to him, it has better medical gadgets to treat the governor’s ailments. Aliyu said Suntai was suffering from “spinal cord persistent” and “closed head injury” which made him have “expressive and receptive alphasia”. A member of the Taraba State House of Assembly and a friend to the Suntai family, Hon. Mark Useni, told The Nation that Suntai had recovered and was looking good when he was with him a few days ago. The governor has recovered and even said he is tired of the environment there. His return is only being delayed on the advice of his doctors, Useni said. Useni, along with a former Deputy Speaker of the Taraba Assembly, Hon. Abel Peter Diah, and the Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Rebo Usman, who visited the ailing governor in New York, returned at the weekend. On whether the governor could walk, read and talk, Useni said: “I cannot lie to you. We spent a long time with the governor, chatting. When we went outside and took photographs with him, he suggested that we should go to the Green House to conclude our discussions. While we were with him (Suntai), the Venezuelan Ambassador to Nigeria called him and they had a lengthy discussion on the telephone. If the governor is not well, what would he be telling the Venezuelan ambassador on the telephone for such a long time? “Yet, while we were still with the governor, the chairman of the Taraba Muslim Pilgrim Board also called from Nigeria and they spoke,” Useni said. Useni added that as they were chatting with the governor, a House of Representatives member representing Bali/Gassol Federal Constituency, Hon. Haruna Manu, also joined and took photographs with him. Hon. Abel Peter Diah said their visit to Suntai was not official. Suntai has not been told that National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has set up a party panel to probe his health and office, and the matter and other sundry litigations against his prolong absence were in court. Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba South) also spoke to The Nation on telephone from New York at the weekend while with Suntai. Bwacha said he was surprised that Suntai’s opponents were not God- fearing, in spite of God’s wonders on the Taraba governor. “Let anyone say whatever he or she wants (on the governor’s health). I am with the governor now, but I don’t want to react to what people say because when they misinform the public and you are trying to say the true things, they say you are playing politics. “But may God forgive them so that they can repent. They will soon see the governor returning hale and hearty,” Bwacha added.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:05:51 +0000
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