I Am Gradually Going To Departure Lounge, Says Obasanjo Of Death

FORMER President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, June 17, in Zamfara State, said he was gradually heading to the departure lounge, ostensibly peaking in parable concerning his death.
Obasanjo, who was in the state at the invitation of Governor Dauda Lawal to inaugurate the reconstructed Yeriman Bakura Specialists Hospital in Gusau, the state capital, commended his host, saying: “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.
“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.”
The 88-year-old former head of state noted that a solution to the menace of mass relocation of medical personnel from the country is by offering them with incentives, stressing that without medical personnel, though the right environment and equipment might be there, hospitals cannot deliver.
He stated: “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. 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.”