By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is critically ill and had to be flown to Paris, France for urgent medical treatment.
But one of the campaign spokespersons for Atiku, Daniel Bwala, earlier released photographs of what he said was Atiku in Paris with journalists.
Atiku was in Kaduna yesterday during the campaign rally of the PDP. According to Fani-Kayode, who is head of the social media communication of the APC, after the Kaduna rally, Atiku complained of being dizzy and later collapsed.
But the photos released by Bwala show a healthy looking Atiku chatting Caucasian journalists. Fani-Kayode claimed the photos were staged to deceive the public.
Fani-Kayode’s tweet reads: “After his outing in Kaduna yesterday @atiku fell ill. He complained of dizzy spells and severe pains in his head and all over his body throughout the flight to Abuja. After landing at Abuja airport, he collapsed. He was flown to Paris for medical attention immediately.God be with him.
“For the purposes of damage control, they took pictures of him with others the following morning from Paris but please do not be fooled. There is something very wrong with the PDP presidential candidate in terms of his health and they don’t want the Nigerian public to know. Pray for him.”
But Bwala shared photograph of Atiku chatting with some foreign journalists while former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and also one of Atiku’s campaign spokespersons, Dino Melaye, were at the background.
