Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s nationwide speech as appalling.<\/p>\n
PDP insisted that Buhari failed to offer solutions to the COVID-19 challenge facing Nigerians.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the former ruling party expressed disappointment that Buhari failed to offer post lockdown stimulus to Nigerians in the private sector.<\/p>\n
According to the statement: \u201cThe PDP is appalled that President Buhari, in his Monday\u2019s COVID-19 address, again, failed to offer decisive solutions to protect Nigerians from the deadly pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe express disappointment that President Buhari did not offer any post lockdown stimulus to assist Nigerians in the private sector whose businesses had been crippled by the lockdown and are now faced with the burden of workers\u2019 salaries and business refinancing.\u201d<\/p>\n
PDP lamented that \u201capart from the elementary lockdown and failed palliative showboating, President Buhari did not offer a decisive solution regarding the production of drugs, testing kits and management of equipment to safeguard Nigerians, despite the huge resources at the disposal of his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
The party further described as saddening that \u201cBuhari did not address the demands by Nigerians to end his administration\u2019s political parochialism and engage competent hands, including indigenous researchers, equipment manufacturers, pharmaceutical, medical as well as virology experts to infuse home grown therapeutic solutions in the overall effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
The party insisted that had Buhari heeded this demand by Nigerians at the onset of the pandemic, the situation would not have escalated to this frightening level with no solution in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s nationwide speech as appalling. PDP insisted that Buhari failed to offer solutions to the COVID-19 challenge facing Nigerians. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the former ruling party expressed disappointment that Buhari failed to offer post lockdown stimulus to Nigerians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,65],"class_list":["post-24471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n