Occupy UK hospital where Buhari’ll be, Sowore tells Nigerians in London

Publisher, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, yesterday asked Nigerians in London to occupy the London hospital where President Muhammadu Buhari would undergo a routine medical checkup. Sowore also asked them to occupy the Abuja House in London. Gunmen kill 31 as Buhari tasks service chiefs to be proactive Kano approves N8.9bn for proposed Buhari interchange Buhari on […]

Publisher, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, yesterday asked Nigerians in London to occupy the London hospital where President Muhammadu Buhari would undergo a routine medical checkup.

Sowore also asked them to occupy the Abuja House in London.

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Buhari on Tuesday departed Abuja for London, the United Kingdom, for a routine medical check-up.

He was seen off by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari; the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and other officials. Buhari is due back in the country during the second week of April, 2021.

Before embarking on the trip, the president had presided over a meeting of the National Security Council.

Sowore, in a tweet on Tuesday, described the president’s medical trip as a waste of resources.

He said: “Nigerians in UK must #occupy the hospital where sickly @mbuhari is wasting Nigeria’s resources and the Nigeria embassy as well as Abuja House in London, let Buhari return home and do a medical check in the “world-class” hospital he built since coming to power. #Buharimustgo!”

Also, the People’s Democratic Party yesterday described Buhari’s routine medical check-up abroad as a direct indictment of his government’s failure to fix Nigeria’s healthcare system.

PDP’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, said:  “While the PDP has nothing against where any person, including President Buhari, seeks his or her medical services, our party is worried that the Buhari Presidency is taking no decisive steps to fix our health care system, ostensibly because Mr President can afford overseas medical treatment at tax payers’ expense.

“The PDP is disturbed that while Mr President jets out for medical treatment in well-equipped hospitals abroad, our hospitals and medical personnel are in a very sorry situation while millions of our compatriots suffer, with many dying on daily basis from conditions that have simple medical solutions.

“It is indeed heartrending that Nigerians are suffering this huge misfortune of having this highly insensitive, incompetent and corrupt leadership of very selfish individuals who do not care about the welfare of other citizens.”

Meanwhile, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today last night, stressed that there was no emergency for Buhari to travel to London.

Shehu said Buhari was not sick in any way, stressing that it was just a routine medical check-up just as he had done in the past.