Nigeria top candidate ill
07/03/2007 17:10  - (SA)  

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Abuja - The presidential candidate of Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in next month's election has been flown abroad for medical treatment, said his party on Wednesday.

PDP's secretary Ojo Maduekwe said Yar'Adua was first treated at an Abuja hospital for an undisclosed ailment on Monday before the decision to fly him abroad was taken.

"In full consultation with his personal physician, a decision was subsequently taken today (on Wednesday) that the process of medical investigation could benefit from facilities overseas," he said.

He did not say which country Yar'Adua was taken for treatment, but local media said he was flown to Germany.

"Accordingly, governor Yar'Adua is expected to be briefly away for the completion of a medical process which began today (on Wednesday) in Nigeria. There is no cause for alarm," he said.

Yar'Adua, 55, and governor of the northern Katsina state, has been a subject of media attention over his reported ill-health since he became the PDP candidate last December.

He was absent from a campaign rally in Lagos on Monday, leaving thousands of party supporters stranded for several hours.

Nigerians will go to the polls in April to choose a successor to President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose second four-year term comes to an end and who is constitutionally barred from standing again.

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