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Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu has returned from his medical trip abro-ad,dismissing rumours that he was paralysed as unfounded.

Tinubu, who arrived the Mur-tala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a British Airways aircraft last night was received by a tumultous crowd of party faithfuls and well wishers.

Addressing the crowd, Tinubu described the peddlers of his rumoured paralysis as acting under "demonic and negative wishes of some people" and prayed God to forgive them.

Giving an insight into what led to his medical trip abroad, the governor said he had a back problem which resulted from a slight injury when he went to Singapore with President Olusegun Obasanjo recently but could not really treat himself before rushing back home.

"I came back home and the thing aggravated because not long after, I kicked off my rally. I was in pain. It was a serious one for that matter which affected one of my legs and people insisted that I had to go for medical treatment", he said.

The governor, who reacted to allegations of non-performance by Chief Ganiyu Dawodu, former Lagos State Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy(AD) and currently the Progressive Action Congress(PAC) gubernatorial candidate in the state, described him as an expired politician.

"Let him point to one legacy that he left behind. Let him answer several questions. What is his manifestoe? Let him tell us his economic blueprint for Lagos State recovery. What is his economic programme for the development of Lagos State. Those are the things Lagosians will want to know.

"What is his priority on education, health programme; how is he going to create jobs for millions of our unemployed youth graduating and frustrated..."? Tinubu asked.

He disclosed that in the course of his medical attention abroad, he secured some medical facilities from Chicago which would make the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital a centre of Opthalmology, handling all kinds of eye diseases and problems.

He stated that a hospital in Chicago would train 25 technical personnel who would man the equipment.