Former Director General, Centre for Democratic
Studies, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, was on Monday flown abroad following his
deteriorating health.
But in a parting shot, the political scientist
lamented that former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, who
appointed him as CDS DG, and some of his friends had abandoned him to his fate.
Omoruyi was first diagnosed with cancer in 2007,
but his condition improved after receiving treatment in the United States.
Speaking in Benin City, Edo State, before
travelling to the US, he appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and other
Nigerians to come to his aid.
Omoruyi said, “I have been used and dumped,
especially by Babangida. Some politicians who don’t like me were also
preventing the President from giving me assistance, after I sent a
message about my health predicament to him.
“My cancer is back and I don’t know how it will
end. Governor Adams Oshiomhole has graciously come to my aid again. He is the
one making it possible for me to commence my second journey.
“In my book, My journey Back To Life,
that is journey number one. It will appear I am starting a second journey, and
how this second journey will end, I don’t know. I am going to hospital in the
United States to commence a new treatment plan and that treatment plan, how it
will end, I do not know.
“In the book, I said in the life of a cancer
survivor, there are two fears. Fear number one is the fear of a recurrence,
that the cancer could come back. Fear number two is that one could die.
“IBB abandoned me. I let him know about the first
journey. He did not help me, not even one kobo so I cannot go to him for this
second journey. In the first journey I did not hear from him. I sent him
a text message that I am going back to the hospital. I have also alerted
some of my good people.
“I am going back to the hospital. President
Goodluck Jonathan should help me. I cried to him through Chief Edwin Clark.
There is vindictiveness in the land. I have paid my dues in this country and
the country is unfair to me. What did I not do?”
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