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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President
Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the PDP, to stop taking credit for the
country’s successful containment of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), saying it
amounts to sheer dishonesty for the duo to turn what was a collective effort to
a PDP campaign issue.In a statement issued in London on Sunday by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said President Jonathan and
his party were wrong to have appropriated the credit for the successful
containment of the EVD without giving due credit to the real heroes of the
successful battle: Dr. Stella Adadevoh and her colleagues at the First
Consultant Hospital; officials of the Ameyo Adadevoh Ministries of Health in
Lagos and Rivers States and the patriotic Nigerian volunteers, among others.It
described as a cheap shot and a shameless venture the President’s decision to
make the Ebola success story a campaign issue during a PDP rally in Benin,
giving the impression that only the PDP deserves the credit for the successful
containment of the disease.APC said while indeed Health Minister Onyebuchi
Chukwu exhibited the kind of professionalism and purposefulness that are not
common with the Jonathan Administration during the battle against Ebola, it will
be uncharitable for the PDP-led Federal Government to pretend as if the
government of the two affected states did nothing.The party reminded President
Jonathan that the two states hit by Ebola, Lagos and Rivers, are APC states,
and that the promptness, purposefulness, doggedness and determination shown by
the Governors of the states contributed largely to the successful containment
of the virulent disease.”The cities of Lagos and Port Harcourt are perhaps the
largest metropolis to have ever been hit by the EVD since the first outbreak
was recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo almost 40 years ago, and any
mishandling of the disease could have spelt disaster not just for the cities
but for the country as a whole.”But the ever-dogged and determined Governors
Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers States employed
the same winning strategies that have stood their states out of the pack and
quickly rose to the occasion, putting in place measures that ensured a quick
curtailing of the EVD sprea. The measures include painstaking contact-tracing,
unrelenting follow-up and creative treatment of infected patients even without
access to the experimental drug Zmapp.”There is no doubt that Nigeria is
fortunate that the EVD outbreaks were recorded in those two states. It is a
measure of the high premium that the Chief Executives of the states place on
human life, a testimony to the strong health systems they are building and an
indication of their purposeful approach to governance that they successfully
contained the disease, thus earning Nigeria a rare accolade from the global
community.”Unlike the President and the PDP, we will also like to give credit
to the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, for acting out of character
with the do-nothing Jonathan Administration.We hope President Jonathan and his
party will stop making the Ebola success story in which opposition states were
the main actors a fulcrum of their campaign for the 2015 general elections.
They cannot and should not take credit for the containment of Ebola in
Nigeria,” APC said.The party also advised President Jonathan not to use the
Ebola containment effort as another tool to divide Nigerians along party
lines.”President Jonathan is the most divisive President in Nigeria’s history.
He inherited a united Nigeria, but has divided the country along ethnic and
religious lines on the altar of selfish personal ambition and short-term
opportunism. It will amount to a monumental tragedy if the President will again
use the Ebola success story, which has earned Nigeria a rare acclamation from
the global community, as a tool to further divide Nigerians,” it said
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Who is the most foolish president in the world? D answer is easy, google gives the answer as president goodluck jonathan. Hw can he claim to do wat he did nt do. For a serious and committed government, let us join hands in voting and protecting our votes, and ensure apc wins com feb. 2015. Long live nigeria, long live apc
ReplyDeleteWho is the most foolish president in the world? D answer is easy, google gives the answer as president goodluck jonathan. Hw can he claim to do wat he did nt do. For a serious and committed government, let us join hands in voting and protecting our votes, and ensure apc wins com feb. 2015. Long live nigeria, long live apc
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