“I am gradually going to the departure lounge” – Ex-President Obasanjo speaks in parables about his death

ThenewsguruJune 17, 2025Read original

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday in Zamfara State spoke in parables about his death, revealing that he is currently headed to the departure lounge.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Obasanjo was in Zamfara at the invitation of the State Governor Dauda Lawal to inaugurate the reconstructed Yeriman Bakura Specialists Hospital in Gusau.

While commending Governor Lawal, the former President said: “Even though I am gradually going to the departure lounge, but I won’t take my boarding pass until you and I get this State to become one of the leading States in Nigeria”.

Obasanjo added: “You asked me to come; I have come, I have seen, but I am going nowhere yet. If you don’t invite me to Zamfara, I will invite myself regularly”.

Meanwhile, in his speech, Obasanjo, who is 88-year-old, also proffered a solution to the menace of mass relocation of medical personnel from the country, suggesting that they should be provided with incentives.

Obasanjo stressed that without medical personnel, though the right environment and equipment are there, hospitals cannot deliver, adding that providing incentives for medical personnel will address the japa menace.

“For hospitals, especially when many Nigerians, who have been trained as medical personnel are japaing, which is going out of the country looking for better conditions, I say how do you hold them here.

“You have to give them a bit of incentive. You have to. We need all the personnel that we can have because for our hospitals to deliver, you need the right environment, you need equipment and then you need the personnel,” Obasanjo said.

Speaking at the event, Governor Lawal said that with the complete reconstruction of the Yeriman Bakura Specialists Hospital in Gusau, patients will no longer travel out of the State to seek medical attention.

According to Lawal, the Yeriman Bakura Specialists Hospital has been fully upgraded and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that meet global standards.