50—SATURDAY Vanguard, NOVEMBER 3, 2012
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City
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t was sad news last Monday for indigenes of Edo State, when the former Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof Omo Omoruyi, declared that his cancer has resurfaced. He was flown to the United States of America for another round of treatment but before he left, he pleaded with President Goodluck Jonathan and his former boss, President Ibrahim Babangida to come to his aid. According to him, “My cancer is back and I don’t know how it will end, the governor of the state Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has graciously come to my aid again. He is the one making it possible for me to commence my second journey. You know in my book I said “My journey back to life”, that is journey number one. It will appear I am starting a second journey but how this second journey will end, I don’t know. So this weekend, on Saturday, I am going to the hospital in the United States, to commence a new treatment plan and that treatment plan, how it will end, I do not know. You will recall that in the book, I said in the life of a cancer survivor, there are two fears: fear number one is the fear of recurrence that the cancer could come back, fear number two is that one could die. The fear number one is no more fear, it is real. My cancer is back which means I have to start a new treatment plan, I have to start a new journey because the other one was also a journey. Weeping I cried because since September, when I went the United States in the hospital for three weeks, all the series of tests showed that my cancer is back ,that the recurrence is more a fear but it is now real. It is back and therefore there has to be a new plan to treat Prof Omo Omoruyi..My cancer is back and I don’t know me. So, there are two alternatives for me. One, there is a new how it will end drug that has been approved by FDA, Food and Drug Administration in the United States which costs about $9000 a month, but you cannot take it unless in the presence of the doctor an oncologist. It is a drug that was just introduced in September. Luckily, with what comrade provided me, I was able to buy for the first month. I have not started using it. I am going to start using it in the hospital this weekend in Boston in the United States. If that doesn’t work, I have to go again through a ams Oshiomhole, I am going back to start a no more fear of resurnew kind of chemotherapy. I new treatment. The end, I don’t know, that gence, fear of recur- ple. They are the ones know what I went through be- means I am starting a second journey, the first rence, it has recurred, it running ACN. What fore, so if the second fear then journey, Back to Life, that book is there, hope- is real...fear of death, must he do, I will leave happens, if I then die, who fully, it will also be back to life because if you that one is for God, I am that to time but he knows, I don’t know...so I am look at the book, it clearly said that I was guar- a Christian and I have should try and rebuild starting this two alternative anteed five years . So, when I started noticing always believed that that the party ACN but not treatment plans for an end I some problems, I knew that well, it is not un- is how it ends. There is with all these people don’t know. So this weekend, usual so maybe who knows, God in His infi- nothing you can do about hanging around him now. I don’t want to with the help of Comrade Adnite mercies would grant that. For a cancer survi- name names. These are vor, death is the ultimate no good people, all me another five years. For those who want to but I don’t want to suf- these people left over come to my aid, this is a fer. With what I went from Lucky Igbinedion, knew journey, so if you through before, it is an they are not good peodon’t see me again, if agonising moment for ple. There are good peothe second fear takes me that I am going to go ple who are not in poliplace, if I die, then you through all that again in tics now, who really have know where I am. But a different way. You can track record of accomkeep praying for me that see my agony, so I don’t plishment and service in this second journey, I want to suffer but I have to our community. Bebeen suffering in differ- cause of the future of this will also come back. ent ways in the past one state, we may have a month. I can’t help but monumental problem. IBB I sent him a text mes- still say think you Comsage yesterday that I am rade Adams Oshiom- What do you expect going back to the hospi- hole. Whatever happens, from your state (Edo) in tal. I have also contact- I pray for him that under the near future? We are supposed to be ed some of my good peo- him, and with him, this ple; General and Sena- State should find a di- in South-South dominattor Daisy Danjuma, Mrs rection. I wish I could ed by PDP. Is he a PDP Ama Pepple and many help him more than that; man? He is ACN, but is other kind people who those who he will put in he ACN of Tinubu or came to my aid at vari- government to help him ACN of Ribadu, is he ous times during my first will be those that will ACN Yoruba or ACN journey; the likes of Pro- help this State find a di- Edo? To me, he should fessor Tunde Adeniran, rection in this country do everything possible to work with Jonathan Professor Tunde Rahma, called Nigeria. I can see a lot of prob- and you know clearly Professor Tunde Makanjuola, Professor A. B. Ya- lem in future but he is a that is not the ACN dihaya, Professor Osayuki nice man. It is not be- rection. Outside, this Oshodin and my rela- cause he is helping state will suffer but we me...he loves his people, don’t know what tions. I have been crying here he loves the state but un- Jonathan’s party will be for two weeks now but I fortunately, all these because my good friend have let them know that people he gathered from E. K. Clark is trying to my cancer is back. It is PDP are not good peo- put together all these
Don’t let this cancer kill me , Prof.Omo Omoruyi begs President Jonathan
South people. They are not all PDP, they are not all ACN, these are people from the Southwest, southeast and soutsouth. The next meeting will be at Enugu and then Comrade is not there and then you find people like Anenih and the likes, these are not people who can help this state. There is nothing from all these left overs of PDP who are masquerading as ACN. I believe that there is a future for this state if we will find a new re-alignment which is not going to take into account all these left overs of PDP, the PDP of Jonathan at the appropriate time is not going to be the PDP you are seeing today. It is a future because I believe that Jonathan should run in 2015, that is not the thinking of ACN. Mimiko will support the position of Jonathan in 2015. Comrade should provide the leadership of that realignment, a re-alighnment which will take into account what I am talking now. What about Nigeria? As a country, there are obvious problems, there are problems of people not being frank, people are not being frank with Mr President. Mr President should follow E. K. Clark’s position of being forthright. He should lead this country, it is a simple thing, he should lead, he shouldn’t be led by Bamanga Tukur and co, he should lead this country, he can, I don’t see why not. I am going back to the hospital, the president should help me, Jonathan should help me for goodness sake, he has not. I cried to him through E.K. Clark, that he should help me and pay my bills. I am going back now for a recurrence of cancer, help me. I am setting up a Foundation, help. He is not because Ogiadomhe will not allow him. 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? The man who brought me from the United States, Mike Adenuga; a kind man, he sent me money but he said Professor, whatever I am giving you now is not because of him, he should be the one to pay your bills, but he never did. He told me Professor, I don’t see why Oga should not pay, but he never paid.