Past Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has travelled out of Nigeria for medical treatment abroad after sustaining injuries in a car crash on Monday when his car collided with a United States embassy vehicle after beating the traffic.
According to government sources, the lawmaker left for the United Kingdom aboard a private jet on Tuesday.
Akwa Ibom government sources said the former governor preferred to seek medical help overseas rather than do so at a N30 billion hospital he opened shortly before leaving office in May.
Unveiling the facility in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, in May 2015, Mr. Akpabio had told Nigerians the hospital was of world-class specialist standard with ultra-modern medical facilities that would attract medical tourism to state.
“We needed a hospital that can run at international standard. We also decided to have a hospital that would answer to the needs of Nigerians in terms of advanced health management. And that was why we built the Akwa Ibom Specialist Hospital,” he said.
He also said the hospital was higher than a teaching hospital, and that it was a “quaternary hospital”. The governor said the entire hospital system was hooked up to the global system for best practice.
Now the question on everybody's mouth is, if his hospital is that good, why did he travel abroad to seek medical care?
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