The peoples Democratic party(PDP) has described president Muhammadu Buhari‘s national broadcast on Sunday as empty and devoid of real concerns.
This was contained in a statement on the official Twitter handle of the party.
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The president addressed the nation following the coronavirus pandemic currently rocking on the increase in the country.
See statement below:
COVID-19. Buhari’s Address Empty, Failed to Address Real Concerns
The @OfficialPDPNig laments that President @MBuhari’s long awaited address on the COVID-19 pandemic came empty and failed to address the salient demands of the impact of the scourge on our nation.
The party notes that outside the social distancing and isolation, which Nigerians had already imposed on themselves, Mr. President had no new solutions to offer our nation.
The @OfficialPDPNig regrets that the address did not touch on the real necessities of majority of Nigerians who reside in the states where President @MBuhari had ordered a lockdown.
It is unfortunate that Mr. President failed to respond to demands on hope for medications, direct social palliatives, cut in taxes as well as reduction in the pump price of fuel even with the cut in the price of petroleum and crude oil in the international market.
Our party notes as saddening that even in areas where Mr. President announced an ambitious intervention, such remained largely cosmetic as there are no clear palliative content but moratoriums on loans with no clear data for implementation.
Mr. President is reminded that already, the COVID-19 had affected the performance of those loans. Granting them moratoriums is therefore of no consequence to the capital and interest on them.
It is rather unfortunate that Nigerians had to wait this long for an address that came out empty and failed to respond to anxieties.
Moreover, Nigerians expected Mr. President to articulate an across-the-board and far-reaching strategy that would have captured the need of each state of the federation as they were today, instead of a parochial approach to a national anxiety.
President @MBuhari should therefore go back, listen to the nation, retool his policy framework and implementation strategy to properly address the fears as well as the needs of Nigerians,…
… including health safety measures and the real remedies that meet the anxieties of our nation at this critical time.
COVID-19. Buhari’s Address Empty, Failed to Address Real Concerns
The @OfficialPDPNig laments that President @MBuhari’s long awaited address on the COVID-19 pandemic came empty and failed to address the salient demands of the impact of the scourge on our nation. pic.twitter.com/9YytBiHOqA
— Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) March 29, 2020
via: Information Nigeria
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