Prof. Pat Utomi recounts ugly experience with cancer

Professor of Economics, Pat Utomi has revealed how he struggled with prostrate cancer shortly after 2023 general elections in the country.

Taking to Twitter on Friday, the professor of political economy and managemenUtomi revealed that a biopsy he conducted in the year 2022 showed that he was positive.

“When a biopsy showed I was positive last year, I began treatment with a cancer centre with a branch in Ikeja and VI,” Utomi tweeted.

Utomi revealed that sometimes doctors would try to smuggle him out from the back of the centres to attend election campaigns.

He posted: “When a biopsy showed I was positive in 2022, I began treatment with a branch of a cancer centre in Ikeja and VI.

“I sometimes came from election campaigns to the centre near the Airport. The doctors would try to smuggle me out from the back.”

He explained that his young nephews and cousins, who were medical doctors in Europe and the US, joined forces with the Lakeshore people and decided they wanted him in their direct care after the election.

“That is why it seemed I went quiet because they controlled my phones to reduce stress,” he stated.