PDP Lampoons Buhari For Travelling To London For Virtual Meeting
BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari has no justification to travel to far-away London for a virtual meeting or for a medical checkup, which he could have done at home, if his administration had not wrecked the nation’s healthcare system.
The party said that it is disheartening that while President Buhari is spending tax payers’ money relishing the expertise of London doctors and the luxury of medical facilities in that country, millions of Nigerians are dying in decrepit medical facilities at home.
It therefore described President Buhari’s deployment of the nation’s resources to travel to London for a virtual Global Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 as appalling.
The PDP also berated the Buhari Presidency for trying to hide President Buhari’s private appointment with his doctors under the virtual meeting apparently in a bid to launder his consistent failure to honour his pre-2015 campaign promise not to embark on medical tourism, if elected President.
It noted that Buhari’s action has confirmed the stand by majority of Nigerians that he is wasteful, thinks only about himself and cares less about millions of the citizens, who do not have access to foreign medical treatment, but who are dying on daily basis because the Buhari administration has crippled the health sector.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan said that there is no way history will be kind with President Buhari, as he has always wished, if he continue in his manner of thinking only about his needs at the expense of the generality of Nigerians.
The party further states; “Moreover, is it not atrocious that Mr. President is more interested in going to London for a virtual education summit when hundreds of students, who ought to be beneficiaries of the meeting, are languishing in kidnappers’ dens, with the Buhari administration taking no concrete steps to rescue them and end incessant abduction of students in Nigeria?
“Our party however urges Nigerian not to resign to despondency in the face of such incompetent, selfish and insensitive Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, but to remain resilient in rallying on the platform of the PDP to rescue our nation from misrule,” the PDP said.
