Dora Akinyuli was healthy until... - Family member tells it ALL

Family sources have told SaharaReporters that Dora
Akunyili, a former professor of pharmacy, former director
general of the National Agency for Foods and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and one-time
Minister of Information, died of complications arising from
uterine cancer.
One relative told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Akunyili was
completely healthy until she lost the Anambra senatorial
election in 2011 to Senator Chris Ngige.
The source stated that, at the end of the legal tussle over
the election, the former minister visited the U.S. in 2013 to
undergo what she thought would be a routine medical
checkup. “Her doctor in America did a hysterectomy and
found out that she had a malignant endometrial cancer,”
said this source. He added that it was the tumor that
eventually took her life last week in a hospital in the Indian
city of Bangalore after she had struggled with the disease
for two years.
Another family source stated that Mrs. Akunyili had
received the best treatment after undergoing surgery to
remove the tumor, but disclosed that the cancer was of
such malignant state that it resisted therapy.
One of the two sources revealed that Mrs. Akunyili
maintained an optimistic spirit throughout her illness. “She
never once believed that she would succumb to the
disease,” he said. “Instead, she returned to Nigeria
determined to fight the disease.” He added that the former
minister was so upbeat about triumphing over the sickness
that she accepted her nomination as a delegate to the
ongoing National Confab in Abuja. Her emaciated
appearance at the conference was the first sign that she
was seriously ill.
The other family source also said that, in 1998, Mrs.
Akunyili had received a wrong diagnosis of cancer. She
was serving then as the Zonal Secretary (Southeast) of the
Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). “She traveled to the UK then
for treatment. Doctors then discovered that she was
suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Said the family source: “Once she returned to Nigeria, she
paid back the money the PTF had given her for treatment.
General Muhammadu Buhari was then the leader of PTF.
She was in excellent health until last year when her US
doctor found that she had malignant endometrial cancer.”

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