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General News of Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

COVID-19: Afenifere slams Buhari over lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun

Yinka Odumakin Yinka Odumakin

Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), didn't put Nigerians into consideration before he declared a lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State.

Afenifere spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin who reacted to the Sunday declaration by Buhari stated that those around the President only care about making money from oil and not about the welfare of Nigerians.

He said: “You can’t just shut down states like Lagos and Abuja as if you are shutting down a ministry. You must consider the people who are living there, he has been in town for several weeks when COVID-19 started without one word but he just woke up one night and said you are shutting some parts of the country in 24 hours.

“He didn’t get in touch with the governor of Lagos who had shifted the shutdown till Friday; this shows he never got in touch with him. Buhari is just running Nigeria from Abuja without taking into consideration how others feel.

“You can see that even in New York the governor told Trump that he’s the one that can shut down the state but that is not obtainable here because we run some kind of Federalism and that’s why all these abnormalities are happening.

Odumakin also claimed that Buhari hasn't added value to the fight against the deadly virus.

“Even in the President’s speech, he asked other states to emulate Lagos instead of asking them to copy from Federal Government. Looking at his speech, the federal government has not added any value to the fight against Coronavirus.

“They don’t care about the economy so long as they have collected their oil receipts, if they are running a productive economy they won’t behave like this.

“It’s clear that the interest of the masses, economy and those who depend on daily economy were not put into consideration but for them oil receipts was more important.”