Umaru Dikko Hospitalised In London

The health of the newly appointed Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Umaru Dikko, is giving some members of the party a cause for concern.

It was  learnt on Thursday that Dikko, who was the Minister of Transport during the Second Republic, had gone to seek medical attention for an undisclosed ailment in a London hospital.

Dikko, 77, was recently appointed to head the PDP committee by the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

A family source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media on the issue, confirmed this to one of our correspondents in Kaduna.

It was gathered that Dikko is suffering from an ailment often associated with old age. He was first treated for the said ailment a few months ago.

A medical doctor familiar with the case confided in one of our correspondents that “he suffered from the ailment (name withheld) a few months ago, but he made sufficient recovery.
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