Coronavirus: Hold Buhari responsible - PDP tells Nigerians

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that Nigerians should hold the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), responsible if the case of Coronavirus in the country goes out of hand.

According to the PDP, the Buhari regime did nothing to ensure the virus is prevented from gaining entrance into the country.

This is contained in a statement issued by the spokesman of the PDP, Kola Ologbodiyan.

“Buhari Presidency’s negligence and laidback attitude to governance and the welfare of Nigerians led to the avoidable entrance of the deadly coronavirus into our dear country.

“It was evident that the Buhari Presidency, not being alive to its responsibilities, as usual, took no concrete steps to hedge our nation against the virus, leading to the current scary situation.

“We note that a responsive and proactive government would have mobilized effective surveillance and screening measures to ward off the menace, particularly at our entry points, but the incompetent, insensitive and indifferent Buhari administration, was more interested in propaganda and unnecessary showboating with false performance claims.”

The opposition party also accused the regime of abandoning Nigerians stranded in China where the virus first broke out.

“Just the same way it abandoned our compatriots who were being murdered in the heat of xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

“Nigerians should directly hold the Buhari Presidency responsible should any national calamity arose from COVID-19 in addition to the economic and security challenges its negligence had caused our nation.”