THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has acknowledged that shrouding President Muhammadu Buhari’s illness in thriller for political causes is neither good for his non-public nor the nation’s interest.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja following the departure of the president for London on a date with his medical medical doctors, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, well-known that there is nothing mistaken in the president going for remedy for any ailment however it behoves the presidency to disclose his true state of nicely being.
It berated the presidency for deceiving Nigerians over the president’s nicely being considerably on its declare recently that Buhari had a technical stopover in London from the United States over his airplane factors whereas he was there for an appointment with his medical medical doctors.
It well-known that the presidency has now confirmed that the president is unwell in the assertion asserting Buhari’s return to London.
According to the spokesman, the social gathering notes “the affirmation of the Presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari is unwell, ailing and unfit to handle state points, ensuing to his latest journey to the United Kingdom for medical consideration.
“This admission, though belated and coming after intense public stress, has now put to rest, speculations on the nicely being standing of the President, in addition to his attendant incapability to efficiently govern.
“It is nonetheless very unfortunate that the President and his handlers had chosen to shroud the issue of his persistent illness in secrecy beneathan authorities that prides itself on claims of transparency and integrity.
“Nigerians will recall that shortly sooner than the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April, Mr. President, with out transmitting a letter to the National Assembly, as required by the construction, undertook a personal go to to the UK, the place his medical medical doctors are recognized to reside, 5 clear days ahead of CHOGM. Nigerians had been left in the darkish for the interval no matter requires for full disclosure by the PDP.
“Only ultimate week, two days after his departure from the United States the place he had gone for a state go to, Mr. President went ‘missing’ as soon as extra. When points began to mount on his whereabouts, the Presidency claimed he had a ‘technical stopover’ in the UK, citing flight factors, only for revelations to emerge from the similar Presidency, on Monday, that Mr. President was actually in the UK to see his medical medical doctors.
In these circumstances, Nigerians had been taken with no consideration, deceived and dealt with like lesser men and women with out reasoning functionality, whereas our nation, at these durations, was left with no administration as Mr. President refused to transmit vitality as required by the 1999 Constitution, as amended.”
The maintained that whereas it has nothing in opposition to the President’s decision to deal with his ailing nicely being “as we're all subject to human frailties, Nigerians detest the deception, lies and beguiling that had trailed the coping with of his unabating nicely being issue.
Even as we converse, Nigerians are not aware of the ailment our President is affected by and the identification of the medical medical doctors and the hospital attending to him.”
PDP added: “Moreover, it is unfortunate that President Buhari would on a regular basis embark on medical tourism abroad when his administration has totally refused to cope with the poor state of the nicely being sector in Nigeria, for which medical personnel are in the mean time on strike all through the nation.
“In conclusion, we urge the Presidency to note that shrouding the issue of President Buhari’s illness in secrecy, just for political options, is neither in the interest of the President nor that of our nation at large.
Sordidly, the handlers of Mr. President appear to be further concerned regarding the subsequent election in its place of the implications of a failing nicely being and the blatant breaches of our construction. The PDP, subsequently, counsels President Buhari to be successfully guided and take value of his nicely being challenges.”
The PDP moreover responded the response of the presidency to the petition it wrote to the United Nations (UN) on the alleged escalating impunity of the federal authorities, as soon as extra drawing the attention of Nigerians and the worldwide neighborhood to the import of the presidency’s response to the allegations detailing the “gross violation of human rights,
mass killings, state-sponsored violence, persecution of opposition, subversion of democratic tenets and large-scale corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government.”
According to the PDP, it is incontrovertible that its petition which was signed by our National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, embodies “the pains, anguish, mood, wishes and voice of the generality of Nigerians across board, particularly the victims of extra-judicial killings, state instigated violence, arrests and detentions, economic hardship occasioned by large-scale corruption and government incompetence.”
The social gathering recognized what it acknowledged is the worldwide outcry in opposition to the impunity and high-handedness for which different revered worldwide corporations, along with the Amnesty International (AI), Transparency International and the United States Department of State had issued experiences exposing these atrocities, whereas exhaustively indicting the Buhari administration.
It added: “The world was nonetheless shocked when the Buhari Presidency, in a brash current of vitality and siege mentality, arrogantly dismissed the issues raised by the PDP and the worldwide corporations as ‘comical’ and even went ahead to issue new threats to the opposition and dissenting voices in our nation.
“This grotesque response by the Buhari Presidency on very important factors bordering on direct violation of constitutionally assured welfare, non-public liberty and lives of residents is completely reprehensible and extra demonstrates the extent of official conceitedness, high-handedness, dictatorial proclivities and spurn with which the Buhari Presidency and the APC preserve our residents and the worldwide neighborhood.
“This obstinate position of the Presidency at a time it should be showing remorse, retracing its steps, apologising and making effort to end the atrocities, clearly shows that what obtains in our country now is a deliberate enthronement of official overbearingness and intolerance to dissent, as if Nigerians are no longer citizens but subjects of a conquest.”
It invited all Nigerians and the worldwide neighborhood to note that as a result of the submitting of the petition to the UN for which Nigerians all through the board have reposed hope, “there has been an escalation of hostilities, direct threats, harassment and intensified persecution of key opposition members, including our National Chairman.”
PDP well-known that Nigeria beneath President Buhari “is awfully degenerating into a despotic state where citizens are no longer safe as long as they hold an opinion contrary to those in power, in spite of their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression.”
It, subsequently, urged the world not to fold its fingers and watch as official impunity and imminent despotism override civil liberty and rule of laws in Africa’s largest democracy.