The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described
President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide
speech as appalling.
PDP insisted that Buhari failed to offer
solutions to the COVID-19 challenge facing Nigerians.
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola
Ologbondiyan, the former ruling party expressed disappointment that Buhari
failed to offer post lockdown stimulus to Nigerians in the private sector.
According to the statement: “The PDP is appalled
that President Buhari, in his Monday’s COVID-19 address, again, failed to offer
decisive solutions to protect Nigerians from the deadly pandemic.
“We express disappointment that President Buhari
did not offer any post lockdown stimulus to assist Nigerians in the private
sector whose businesses had been crippled by the lockdown and are now faced
with the burden of workers’ salaries and business refinancing.”
PDP lamented that “apart from the elementary
lockdown and failed palliative showboating, President Buhari did not offer a
decisive solution regarding the production of drugs, testing kits and
management of equipment to safeguard Nigerians, despite the huge resources at
the disposal of his administration.”
The party further described as saddening that
“Buhari did not address the demands by Nigerians to end his administration’s political
parochialism and engage competent hands, including indigenous researchers,
equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical, medical as well as virology experts to
infuse home grown therapeutic solutions in the overall effort.”
The party insisted that had Buhari heeded this
demand by Nigerians at the onset of the pandemic, the situation would not have
escalated to this frightening level with no solution in sight.
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