A former Federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has renewed calls for medical tests on all the presidential candidates amid speculations surrounding the health status of some frontline contestants in the February polls.
Sani who made the call via his Twitter handle on Thursday, challenged the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) on the process.
The ex-lawmaker, who asked the results be made public, said the tests would dispel speculations around the health status of the candidates.
He wrote: “The Nigerian Medical Association NMA and the Nurses Association NANNM, should invite all the Presidential candidates for a complete medical tests, and make the result public. This will settle the controversy over the health status of the contenders.”
There were reports last week that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar was scheduled to travel abroad for a medical check-up.
However, spokesman of the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign, Kola Ologbondiyan, dismissed the reports as untrue.
Ologbondiyan demanded media focus on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whom he alleged deserves more medical scrutiny.