By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried President Muhammadu Buhari’s continued silence on the ongoing strike by health workers across the country.
The party said that the president’s refusal to address the issue was a clear manifestation of insensitivity to the plight and suffering of Nigerians.
The opposition party spoke through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
It said: “We lament the anguish of hundreds of Nigerians who are abandoned and dying by the day in our public hospitals, just because President Buhari and his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) attach no importance to issues that concern the average Nigerian.
“Is it not the height of insensitivity that while Nigerians in dire need of medical attention are languishing, President Buhari abandoned them without any form of intervention and embarked on medical tourism in London with our common patrimony?
“As if that was not enough, upon his return to Nigeria, instead of summoning an emergency meeting of critical stakeholders to find solution to the problem, Mr. President abandoned the striking health workers and chose to organize and attend a political rally in Jigawa State for a 2019 re-election bid.”
The party said the attitude of the president on critical issues was directly responsible for the escalation of killings and bloodletting in Benue, Taraba, Adamawa,
Plateau, Kogi, Zamfara, Borno, Yobe, Kaduna states and other parts of the country, where marauders and insurgents were pillaging citizens as if overlooking the plight of Nigerians has become a state policy.
It further said that PDP values the health, security and welfare of Nigerians, stressing, “That is why we feel pained that compatriots are dying in their
numbers because of the refusal of the Buhari-led APC administration to address the health workers’ strike.”
It however appealed to public-spirited individuals, humanitarian organizations and the international community to come to the aid of the nation, stressing that the Buhari administration has no agenda for the health sector.
“Furthermore, while we plead with the health workers to be open to ways to solve the problem, we charge Nigerians to support one another and adhere to all health etiquettes to forestall an outbreak of epidemic and health crisis,” PDP said.
