National Security Adviser to President Yar'Adua, General Abdullah Sarki Mukhtar has been flown to an unnamed London Hospital as a result of an irregular heart beat. He is said to be suffering from a liver related disease.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the NSA who took ill almost the same time with President Yar'Adua was flown to London in an air ambulance. His condition is said not to be improving as he is said to have been suffering from the liver disease for a long time.

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Muktar, a Kano born General is said to have been penciled down for removal by President Yar'Adua regardless of his health situation. He is one of those inherited from the President Olusegun Obasanjo's Administration.

The NSA replaced General Aliyu Gusau who resigned under a controversial circumstance following an Israeli/Nigeria arm deals he was linked. He later sought nomination to contest the 2007 Presidential Election.

General Mukhtar, a former chief of Staff of the ECOMOG force was also a Military Administrator of Kaduna State and a General Officer Commanding, GOC, One Division, Kaduna.

Gen Sarki Mukhtar, a military intelligence officer famously expressed his disenchantment with speculation over General Abacha's perceived tenure extension bid when he was still a serving officer. He disagreed with Gen. Abacha over the sentencing of Generals Obasanjo and Yar'adua at that time.