COMPULSORY HEALTH CHECK FOR ALL NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Opinion: Selfish, Self centered APC will resist this with every muscle.  We wonder what they will be hiding.

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Commonwealth Medical Association calls for presidential candidates to undergo compulsory health tests before elections - The medical associations notes that this would help reveal the health status of presidential aspirants to ensure they are fit for office - They urge Nigerians to push for the exercise to be made a part of the electoral process Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Nigerian Medical Association and the Commonwealth Medical Association have said presidential candidates should henceforth be made to undergo compulsory health tests to ascertain the health fitness of future Nigerian presidents. 

The medical groups said this would help reveal the health status of presidential aspirants starting from next year's elections, The Punch reports. gathered that the medical associations also said they would love to be involved in assessing the candidates' health status, asking Nigerians to push for the exercise to be made a part of the electoral process. According to the groups, they said knowing the candidates' health status would help to avoid a situation whereby the president's illness would hold the country "hostage" as experienced in the past. 

Dr. Osahon Enabulele, a former president of the Nigerian Medical Association and vice-president of the Commonwealth Medical Association said that his position had always been that presidential candidates should be subjected to health test so that Nigerians would know if they were medically fit to hold the office. Enabulele said it should be a requirement in the country's electoral process. He said:"I even canvassed for this at the National Conference. However, the selfish interest of the political class has not allowed this to happen and so they have been holding us hostage. Nigerians have always borne the brunt of this selfish interest.

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