Dr Bello Abubakar, the personal physician to a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has been quizzed by the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) over alleged involvement in the procurement of fake medical report on behalf of his patient, Daily Trust has learnt.

This is just as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) filed a four-count charge against Abubakar, who is an oncology consultant at the National Hospital, Abuja over the alleged offence.

The anti-graft agency had earlier arrested Abubakar over alleged false statements made during a court-approved medical visit for the former governor, alleging that El-Rufai was abusing the court-approved hospital visit.

It specifically argued that the former governor was allegedly receiving political associates while he was expected to undergo medical consultation, saying the development was an outright violation of the court’s order.

Speaking to Daily Trust exclusively last night, sources within the ICPC, explained that the agency took its time to confirm the veracity of a medical report presented to the commission on behalf El-Rufai before the medical personnel was arrested.

One of the sources said Abubakar was first handed over to the leadership of MDCAN to take action against him in order not to accuse the commission of intimidation or disrespecting the medical profession.

“When we got the medical report, we went on to confirm the genuinity of the document. We got three medical doctors in Nigeria and one doctor in the United States. All of them confirmed the document to be fake. So, that was when we went ahead to say NO, this can’t continue.

“But we don’t want to have issues with the generality of the medical doctors, so, what we did was to hand him over to the MDCAN to discipline for trying to bring their profession into disrepute,” the highly-placed source confided in our correspondent.

Earlier on Friday, the anti-graft agency filed a four-count charge against Abubakar, accusing him of knowingly issuing a false medical report to mislead a public officer and support El-Rufai’s bail application in a separate case, marked KDH/KAD/ICPC/02/2026, pending before the Kaduna State High Court.

The charge sheet sighted by our correspondent on Monday, showed that Abubakar authored the report, titled “Medical Report and Expert Opinion for Urgent Medical Intervention,” and dated 10 June 2026.

It accused the medical practitioner of knowing its contents were false, and presented it to a Commissioner for Oaths in Kaduna State, Aliyu Bala, before it was filed in court.

Specifically, the first count accuses Abubakar of giving false information with intent to mislead a public officer, contrary to Section 17(1)(c) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

The second count alleges he used his position as a medical consultant to confer an unfair advantage on himself by knowingly issuing the false report, an offence under Section 19 of the same Act.

A third count accuses Abubakar, a professor, of forming a common intention with Aliyu Bala to fabricate false information, specifically authoring the report to enable Bala to depose a further affidavit in support of the bail application, contrary to Section 79 of the Penal Code.

The fourth count accuses him of dishonestly making a false document, presenting the report as though it carried the authority of the National Hospital, when he allegedly knew the document was not authorised by the hospital, an offence under Sections 362 and 364 of the Penal Code.

Court documents further showed that the National Hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Raji Mahmud, is expected to testify that Abubakar purportedly issued the medical report in El-Rufai’s favour without conducting the required medical examination and handed it to the family to support the bail application.

The CMD is also expected to tell the court that the National Hospital, responding to letters from ICPC investigators, stated that it did not authorise the report attributed to the defendant.

He is expected to testify further that the report was subsequently used by Bala to depose an affidavit backing El-Rufai’s bail bid, and that investigations established that the report was false and did not follow the hospital’s due process.

In a letter responding to ICPC’s enquiries, the CMD confirmed that Mr Abubakar remains attached to the hospital as a Chief Consultant Radiation Oncologist, on a contract appointment following his retirement from full-time service. (Daily Trust)

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