The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s scathing remark on overseas medical treatment as “self-indicting and raises public apprehensions on high-level deceits in governance.”
It termed as ridiculous, “a situation where a president, who patronises foreign hospitals for treatment and even check-ups; whose administration has failed to provide adequate healthcare in his country, could turn around to pontificate to other citizens against foreign treatment.”
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party said while it does not approve of proliferated medical tourism, especially by leaders and public office holders, “a leader who has failed to lead by example and whose government has neglected and wrecked our healthcare systems, lacks all rectitude to issue directives against foreign treatment”,
The statement continued: “Consequently, the PDP urges President Buhari to show example by patronising a Nigerian public hospital on his next medical appointment so that he can experience the healthcare reality that our citizens have been subjected to under his government.
