Senator-Elect Visits First Consultant Hospital

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) senator-elect for Kaduna North senatorial district, Shehu Sani on Thursday paid a courtesy visit to the First Consultant Medical Centre, Lagos in appreciation of the sacrifice of the staff of the hospital in containing the Ebola disease.

He equally extended his visit to the Ikeja home of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.

Sani specifically commended the late Dr. Stella Adadevoh who died having been infected while treating the index case, Mr. Patrick Sawyer from Liberia, thereby saving over 170 million Nigerian from the dreaded disease.

Sani said: “The hospital is a source of pride to the nation and with the incoming administration of General Buhari, the health sector will be a major focus, so that Nigerians can be restrained from travelling abroad for medical treatment, even at the slightest ailment.”

He also stated that the country is presently encountering many challenges in terms of social infrastructure, corruption and insurgence, assuring that he would accord the health sector priority in the National Assembly when the administration comes into being.

The senator-elect described Adadevoh as a role model and a mother who died for the survival of the nation, lamenting that the federal government had not immortalised her.

He noted that as a lawmaker, he would take it up with his colleagues to name the National Hospital after Adadevoh “because she deserves to be remembered.”

At Abiola residence, Sani was warmly received by the children of late Kudirat Abiola, Hafsat and Jamiu Abiola.

Sani described Abiola as a hero of the nation’s democracy, saying that his resistance during the struggle gave the entire nation the vigour and focus that enabled the fight for freedom of the people and against the military dictatorship in Nigeria.

The activist recalled that as an active member during the struggle to restore democracy, he was jailed as a political prisoner by the military while some others like him went into exile.

According to him, “Today Chief Abiola is no more with us but his name will continue to ring bell in the ears of every Nigerian because he sacrifice his life for the freedom and future of Nigerians.”

Remarking that as another administration in the country will be ushered in by May 29, Sani expressed the hope that Chief Abiola will be immortalised.

Hafsat thanked Sani for the visit and for identifying with members of Abiola family even while he lived.