Femi Adesina, a former spokesman for the late former President Muhammadu Buhari said his principal would have long been dead if he had used Nigerian hospitals for his medical treatments.
Buhari, a former military head of state and two-term civilian president died died on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at a London Hospital at the age of 82.
Adesina in an interview with Channels Television, said the late former president had always patronised foreign hospitals long before his emergence as Nigeria’s president.
“Like I said, he always had his medicals in London even when he was not in government, so it was not about the time he was president alone. He had always had it in London.
“And then, you have to be alive first, to get certain things changed or corrected in your country.
“If he had said, “I’ll do my medicals in Nigeria, just as a show off or something”, he could have long been dead because there may not be the expertise needed in the country.
“But he needed to be alive to be able to lead the country to a point where we would have that expertise,” Adesina said.
Adesina further stated that those who criticise the late former president for using foreign hospitals for his medical care fail to understand that a president or a man needs to be alive first, before they can effect a change.
The late former president would be given a state burial in his hometown, Daura in Katsina State, once his body is repatriated from London to Nigeria on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
