COVID-19: Your speech empty, offered no solution – PDP blasts Buhari over broadcast
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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