Buhari barred from UK over human rights violation? – PDP

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday, linked President Muhammadu Buhari's cancelled medical trip to London to the parlous hum...

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday, linked President Muhammadu Buhari's cancelled medical trip to London to the parlous human rights record of his administration.

 

In a statement by spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan, the party, urged the President "to come clean on the real reason his scheduled medical trip to London was canceled at the last minute."

The party spoke on a day the President was supposed to be London-bound, the eighth  time he would be in the country on health ground since coming into power in 2015.

The President had conveyed his intention for another trip through his spokesman, Femi Adesina, who said on Thursday, that his boss would be in the UK till the middle of July.

In another statement, on Friday, the presidential spokesman, informed that the President had postponed the trip adding that a new date would be announced.

But, PDP, which appeared unimpressed, believed the President was hiding the truth about the situation to Nigerians.

"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.

"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 statement from the party, said.

It added: "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.

"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.

 

"It 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, fix our hospitals and confront other challenges facing the health sector in our country."

 

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