Spokesperson for the Nigerian Military, Major General Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that Lt. Col. Adegboye Obasanjo, son to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, shot on Monday by members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in Michika, was responding to treatment.
Speaking to our Correspondent in a telephone interview from Abuja, Olukolade, said also that the Army engineer’s injury was not a life-threatening one and that soon he would bounce back to work.
Asked if Lt. Col. Obasanjo would be taken abroad for treatment, the defense spokesperson said, “I told you that the injury is not a life threatening one and that he is responding to treatment, and you are asking of going abroad. Going abroad for what? Anyway, if need be he might be going outside the country. But for now he is here in Nigeria receiving treatment.”
Olukolade also stated that, the Nigerian Army troops have been able to successfully repel Boko Haram members out of Michika and that some of them were killed in the re-launched offensive by the Nigerian Army.
According to him, “the Nigerian Army this morning took on members of the Boko Haram terrorist group who were still hovering around in Michika, and launched an attack against them, which led to some of them being killed during the offensive.”
Lt. Col. Adegboye Obasanjo on Monday came under the fire power of some Boko Haram insurgents in Michika, Adamawa State, during the sect’s confrontation with Nigerian soldiers.
He was allegedly shot in the thigh and ankle and the injury was serious but the Military spokesperson has said that his injury was not a life-threatening one and that he would return to work soon.
