Cancelled London trip: PDP to Buhari: Use opportunity to think of millions of Nigerians who cannot feed

“Our party urges him to use this period to have some introspection on the sorry situation in which his incompetent, divisive, vindictive and suppressive administration has pushed our nation into in the last six years”

President Muhammadu Buhari has been called to task by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over the cancellation of his scheduled medical trip to London at the last minute, saying he should come clean on the real reason.

The PDP, describing the constraints that led to the sudden cancellation as inessential, said the president should use the opportunity of staying at home to ruminate and reflect on the millions of Nigerians that can no longer afford to feed because their purchasing power has become depressingly low.

“In his consideration, Mr. President must also reflect on how he has wrecked our country’s once robust economy that was handed over to him in 2015 by the PDP, to the extent that Nigerians can no longer afford to feed because their purchasing power has become depressingly low while he (Mr. President) recedes further into the luxury and the safety of the Aso Rock Villa at the expense of the well-being of the ordinary citizens.

“While Mr. President is left to sort out whatever impediments or constraints that led to the sudden cancellation of his scheduled medical trip, our party urges him to use this period to have some introspection on the sorry situation in which his incompetent, divisive, vindictive and suppressive administration has pushed our nation into in the last six years.

“The party’s position is amidst increasing international disapprovals to the escalated human right violations, constitutional breaches, clampdown on citizens, suppression of free speech and other excesses by the Buhari administration, for which there have been concerted demands for travel restrictions against officials of the Buhari Presidency.

“Our party urges President Buhari to use this period to reflect on the suffering of millions of Nigerians who do not have access to foreign medical treatment, but who are dying on daily basis because of his failure to pay attention to our healthcare system, which has become decrepit under his watch,” the PDP said in a statement by Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary and given to Persecondnews.

Accusing the APC government of impoverishing Nigerians, the PDP also said:”lt is indeed heartrending that President Buhari appears to think of himself only even as Nigerians pass through these worst forms of hardship occasioned by his own misrule.

“Nigerians are also dismayed that Mr. President has consistently failed to honour his pre-2015 campaign promise not to embark on medical tourism if elected President.

“President Buhari therefore ought to be aware that the only condition in which history will be kind to him, as he has always wished, is if he honours his own words.

“As well as use this period to resolve the impasse between the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and his administration to fix our hospitals and confront other challenges facing the health sector in our country.”