Tinubu’s Minister, Lola Ade-John Not Poisoned – Ministry Reveals Health Report

The Nigerian Ministry of Tourism hours after reports had it that its Minister, Ms. Lola Ade-John, has been hospitalised after symptoms of acute poisoning has said that the latter was not poisoned.

VerseNews reports that the Ministry according to its Assistant Director Press, Emem Mariam Ofiong, said her principal had malaria and confirmed that she is in a stable condition.

Her words, “It is not true that the Minister was poisoned, she only had malaria and had been treated and is now stable.”

This comes after a news outlet report that the Minister of Tourism, Lola Ade-John, has been hospitalised in the nation’s capital, Abuja, over alleged poisoning and was undergoing treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Jabi, Abuja.

“Lola Ade-John, 60, was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, shortly after she started manifesting symptoms of her poisoning. She has spent four days at the facility as of Friday morning,” family sources familiar with Ade-John’s ordeal told Peoples Gazette.

“Ade-John, a banker and tech investor, has been on a machine to aid her breathing, adding that the specifics as to what substance she ingested and how could not be immediately ascertained,” said the report.

“Her worsening situation has further set the family against the government, with the permanent secretary of her ministry said to be in disagreement as to whether she should continue receiving treatment at a public hospital or be moved to a better-equipped private facility downtown.

The permanent secretary, Ngozi Onwudike, was said to have insisted that the minister should not be transferred because the FMC is a public hospital and its services wouldn’t attract substantial charges to the government, a position her family rebuffed.

But they remained with her as they could not raise funds to move her to a private hospital, our sources said. A phone number for the permanent secretary did not connect on Friday morning.

“A spokesperson for the FMC did not immediately return a request seeking comments about Ms Ade-John’s condition.”

Ms. Ade-John is the pioneer Minister of Tourism after the splitting of the defunct ministry of information and Culture by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into three: Ministry of Information and National Orientation; ministry of Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy and Ministry not Tourism.