Late President Umar Musa Yar'adua had a kidney transplant in 2002 when he was still governor of Katsina State, but avoided having another while he was president for fear that it causes disorders, according to diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks . Cables Nigeria’s leading power brokers suggested in his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the current state of Yar’Adua, but still catching up to become the presidential candidate winning in 2007. Aid to the president stuffed his clothes to hide weight loss and makeup used to hide his pallor, cables claimed, but his illness has finally produced a long absence that fueled public discontent. Yar’Adua died in May 2010 , propelling the Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan at the presidency. Jonathan has recently become the presidential candidate of the ruling party for the election next April. Wikileaks published the cables into the night Saturday. spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, said officials would not comment on anything published on the site. A diplomatic cable claimed Yar’ Adua in June 2008 first began to experience kidney failure in 1999 , just after he became governor. The cable company said the German, Julius Berger, one of the leading firms of the road construction in Nigeria, established a dialysis clinic in the house of Yar’Adua. The firm later German experts fly in and out of Nigeria Yar’Adua private deal, they said. The cable said Yar ‘Adua has received the transplant in 2002 from a donor. who later was a minister in his administration.
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