London — Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Idi Hong, said on Sunday that Chief  Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, currently in a London hospital, was no longer “in grievous danger.”

“With the state in which I have seen him, not as a minister now, but also as somebody with a background of medicine, I think he is stable.

“He is not in any serious or grievous danger because the care is up to standard,” Hong said in London after visiting Ojukwu.

“With the statistics and figures I have seen so far, I think we will say that he is really improving, the vital statistics of the human person is within the normal range and very soon he will recover,” the minister said.

Hong, accompanied by Nigeria’s Actig High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Dozie Nwanna, had earlier delivered a special message from President Goodluck Jonathan to Bianca, Ojukwu’s wife.

Ojukwu was flown to London after spending three days in the intensive care unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, after he was hit by a stroke.