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PDP: Buhari’s broadcast on COVID-19 ‘empty’

Saddam Yusuf Saleh
By Saddam Yusuf Saleh
Published: March 30, 2020
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the broadcast made by President Muhammadu Buhari on the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.

The opposition party in a statement on Sunday issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, explained that the broadcast only addressed the issue of social distancing, proper hygiene and self-isolation, which Nigerians are observing already.

According to Ologbondiyan, the broadcast was empty and failed to respond to anxieties.

“It is unfortunate that Mr. President failed to respond to demands on hope for medications, direct social palliatives, cut in taxes as well as a reduction in the pump price of fuel even with the cut in the price of petroleum and crude oil in the international market,” the statement read.

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“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.

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“President Buhari 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.”

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