The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari for embarking on medical tourism in London and also the nation’s resources to travel for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 when the meeting is scheduled to be virtual.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said Buhari is “trying to hide his private appointment with his doctors under the virtual meeting apparently in a bid to launder his consistent failure to honor his pre-2015 campaign promise not to embark on medical tourism, if elected President”.
The party insisted that Buhari has no justification to travel to far-away London since the meeting is a virtual meeting or for a medical checkup, which he could have done at home.
Insisting that Buhari has crippled the healthcare system, the PDP said, “He is wasteful, thinks only about himself and cares less about millions of citizens, who do not have access to foreign medical treatment, but who are dying on a daily basis because the government has crippled our health sector.
“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?”
The PDP was of the opinion that there is no way history will be kind with President Buhari, as he has always wished if he continues in his manner of thinking only about his needs at the expense of the generality of Nigerians.
The party however urged Nigerians not to resign to despondency “in the face of such incompetent, selfish, and insensitive” Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
The PDP also called on all well-meaning Nigerians to join hands with the party to rescue the nation from misrule.