Sarki Salman na Saudiyya mai shekaru 84 a duniya an shigar da shi asibiti a Riyadh a ranar Litinin saboda cutar mafitsara, in ji masarautar, bayan da ya yi jinkiri ga ziyarar firayim Ministan Iraki. Ba kasafai ka ke ganin Saudi Arabiya ba ta ba da rahoto game da lafiyar mai Dattijai ba, wanda ya mallaki babban mai fitarwa da kuma mafi girman tattalin arzikin kasashen Larabawa tun daga shekarar 2015. A sanarwar da kotun ta fitar ta ce “an shigar da sarki yau a asibitin kwararru na Sarki Faisal da ke Riyadh saboda wasu gwaje gwaje na likita sakamakon cutar kwalara,” kamar yadda kotun ta bayyana a cikin wata sanarwa da kamfanin dillancin labarai na Saudiyya ya fitar. Sanarwar da aka yi da misalin karfe 4:30 na safe (0130 GMT) ba ta fitar da wani karin bayani ba. Firayim Ministan Iraki Mustafa al-Kadhemi wanda ke shirin zuwa Saudi Arabiya, ranar Litinin, ya yi jinkiri, bayan isar da sarkin, a cewar ministan harkokin wajen Saudiyya. “Sakamakon girmama wannan muhimmiyar ziyarar da kuma fatan samun nasara, jagoranci mai kyau a cikin hadin kai tare da ‘yan uwanmu a Iraki sun yanke shawarar jinkirta ziyarar” har lokacin da sarki zai bar asibiti, Ministan Harkokin Waje Yarima Faisal bin Farhan ya rubuta a shafin Twitter. Sa’o’i kafin Kadhemi zai tashi a farkon tafiyarsa a matsayin Firayim Ministan, ofishinsa ya ce sun ji Sarki Salman na fama da “matsalar rashin lafiya kwatsam”. A cikin wata sanarwa da ofishin ya fitar ta ce, “An yanke shawarar jinkirta ziyarar zuwa farkon ranar da bangarorin biyu suka amince da su.” Ministocin man fetur, kudi, wutar lantarki da tsare-tsaren Iraki sun isa Saudi Arabiya a ranar Lahadin nan don fara tarurruka kafin ziyarar Kadhemi, in ji jami’an Iraki. An shirya wakilan za su koma Bagadaza bayan kammala taro a ranar Litinin da yamma. A karkashin mulkin sarki, Saudi Arabiya ta gabatar da wasu matsanancin gyare-gyare ga tattalin arzikin dangin bayan cinikin mai da kuma ba da wasu hakkoki ga mata, amma kuma sun amince da manufofin kasashen waje mafi karfi da shiga yakin da ke makwabtaka da Yemen. Sarki Salman ya hau karagar mulkin ne bayan mutuwar dan uwan nasa Abdullah, wanda ya yi kusan shekara 90. A shekara ta 2017, Saudi Arabiya ta yi watsi da rahotanni da karin haske game da batun da ke nuna cewa sarki yana shirin zubar da cikin don goyon bayan saurayinsa, Yarima mai jiran gado Mohammad bin Salman, wanda ake ganin shi a matsayin mai mulkin gaba. Wani jami’in Saudiyya da ba a ambaci sunansa ba ya fadawa kamfanin dillancin labarai na Bloomberg News, yana cewa ba zai yiwu a ce komai ba, idan dai rashin lafiyar ta hana su gudanar da aikinsu. Matsin lamba na Yarima Mohammed ya hau kan karagar mulki ya zo daidai lokacin da ake kokarin murkushe masu sukar da masu adawa da shi, da kuma sauran dangin sarki. An samu rikice-rikice tsakanin Saudi Arabiya tun lokacin da aka nada shi sarki yariman da magaji a kan karagar mulki a watan Yunin 2017. Hakan ya hada da kisan gillar da aka yi wa Oktoba 2018 wanda ya yi kisan dan jaridar nan Jamal Khashoggi daga hannun jami’an ofishin jakadancin Saudiyya a Istanbul.
