Economist and social crusader, Prof. Pat Utomi, has said that he had been battling cancer in the last one year and went through the 2023 general election campaign with it.
He was one of the arrowheads of the Labour Party that had Peter Obi as its presidential candidate for the 2023 polls.
Utomi, who made the revelation on his Twitter handle on Friday, said he came from campaign venues for treatment in Ikeja area of Lagos State and had to be smuggled out through the backdoor so as not to be seen.
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He tweeted: “I agreed with the Gambian Real Estate Entrepreneur Taf Njie while I battled the disease that we should do more to create awareness.. Nearly 30 years ago I went to Ibadan to speak and lend a hand to present Ondo First Lady Betty Akeredolu as she raised the breast cancer banner.
“I am moved this dawn of light to confront an epidemic under the carpet with great harm to men. Prostate cancer is bringing death and misery to many men. Had they been forewarned the misery containment and even chances of cure could be much enhanced, like women have with breast CA.
“When a biopsy showed I was positive last year I began treatment with a cancer Centre with a branch in Ikeja and VI. I sometimes came from election campaigns to the Ikeja Centre near the Airport. The Doctors would try to smuggle me out from the back. The well known shielded?”
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