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Posted on Wednesday 25 November 2009 - 10:30
Murtala
Murtala Kamara Mohammed, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Nigeria President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has left the shores of his country for medical check up in the Islamic Republic of Saudi Arabia.
"President Umaru Yar'Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While there, the president will call on his personal physicians in Jeddah for follow-up medical checks," Olusegun Adeniyi spokesman for Yar’Adua announced in a statement on Monday.

President Yar’Adua’s health has become a debate among Nigeria’s 150 million people. His countrymen has question is physical ability to rule the oil reach nation. He is reported to have traveled for foreign medical trips more than 4 times since he assumed office in 2008.

In one of his trips during the build up of that country’s Presidential election in 2007 it was rumored that Yar’Adua died in Germany but the 58 year-old leader argued that he is fit to run his country and that the matter of life and death is in God’s hands.

Yar’Adua’s ailment has not been made public but observers say he is suffering from kidney disorder.

Yar’Adua left Nigeria after presenting the 2010 National Appropriation Bill to the Senate President and the speaker of the House of Representative according to next.com

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