FORMER Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme is alive, stable and responding to treatment.This report collaborates with that of Sun Newspaper, Vanguard Newspaper and the News Agency of Nigeria.

While all the sources hint that he is alive, Sun reports that Uche Ezechukwu, the Chairman, Editorial Board of Authority newspaper, said Dr. Ekwueme has moved from a stage of unconsciousness to a state where he “now receives visitors, sits up and eats”.

Ezechukwu also said the former Vice President is yet to be taken abroad, as the necessary documentation and preliminary are on course and arrangements are being completed.

Ekwueme, who was Nigeria’s Vice President between 1979 and 1983 was said to have collapsed while trying to pick something from the table.

He was admitted to the Memphys Hospital in its Intensive Care Unit at the Neurosurgery section of the hospital which is by Penok Petrol Station in Trans-Ekulu, Enugu State, this report, NAN has also confirmed.

“The rumour that he is dead is false,” the news portal quoted an official of the hospital to have said.

President Muhammadu Buhari, had approved the immediate medical treatment of Dr. Ekwueme abroad.

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