Shocking: Minister of finance slumps during cabinet meeting

– The minister slumped during cabinet meeting

– Officials say he was immediately rushed to the hospital

Minister of Finance in Singapore, Heng Swee Keat, collapsed Thursday during a cabinet meeting after suffering a stroke, Vanguard newspaper is reporting.

The country’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, was quoted as confirming that the 54-year old potential premier was rushed to a hospital where he is being attended to by doctors.

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“We were having our weekly cabinet meeting just now when Heng Swee Keat suddenly collapsed,” Lee wrote on his Facebook wall.

“The doctors in cabinet (we have three) attended to him immediately. We called an ambulance, which took him to TTSH (Tan Tock Seng Hospital),” he said adding that a CT scan showed that he had had a stroke.

“Hope Swee Keat will be alright — he is a valuable member of my team.”

In Nigeria, reports last week said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara state was thrown into confusion when a chieftain of the party, Alhaji Kado Yahaya slumped and died.

The incident happened at the Tudun Wada collation centre in Gusau after the PDP ward congress in the state on Saturday, April 30, Daily Sun reports.

A PDP source disclosed that he slumped and died on the spot when he learned that the collated votes were allegedly manipulated by the congress committee.

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