The All Progressives Congress (APC) has justified President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to regularly brief Nigerians on what the administration is doing to contain spread of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic, saying that the vast majority of the population voted a working president, not a talker.
As has been the practice across the globe, presidents or their equivalents daily give their citizens updates on the situation of diseases in their countries as well mitigation and containment strategies put in place to reduce impact of the ravaging scourge.
Even from isolation, COVID-19 positive British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said he was still leading the charge against the pandemic.
However, APC insisted that majority of Nigerians who voted Buhari were not disappointed with their choice, a working and not a talking President.
Rather than engage in frivolous talk, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa Onilu, said Buhari had been leading the charge as a commander, mobilising human and material resources against COVID -19
“A few Nigerians want a president whose preoccupation is talking; while the majority voted for a president who is deploying his energy to working.
“We all can see the effect of the grand efforts being led by President Muhammadu Buhari to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic in Nigeria.
“Like a legendary troop commander that the president is, he is steadily and vigorously leading the charge against the Coronavirus pandemic. With our President mobilising human and material resources, we, as a country, are doing commendably so far as statistics are showing in comparison to even most advanced nations.”
He said the strategy was already showing good result in that the field workers were getting measure of positive result, while state actors, corporate and private individuals contribute their quota in driving the fight against the pandemic.
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“Under the keen supervision of the president, there is a visible and proactive network of national response structures working in tandem with all states.
“The efficiency of the field workers and other state actors has ensured we are able to minimise the spread so far with many states taking proactive steps to forestall wide spread of the very infectious virus.
“We are glad to see many Nigerians rallying behind the president with their own contributions. Notably, the news of the ministers’ voluntary donation of 50 percent of their March salary is unprecedented.
“We commend the foresight of the Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, in coordinating this patriotic action.
“Beyond the monetary donation, the gesture by the ministers would bolster confidence of ordinary Nigerians to call up the resilience for which we are known for.
“It would also encourage many more organisations and other well-to-do Nigerians to lend support to the presidential committee.
In a related development, the party sympathised with the government and people of Ondo State over the explosion that occurred at Ilu-Abo, which destroyed properties there.
The party particularly hailed Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for his prompt visit for an on-the-spot assessment of the damages.
While warning against “unnecessary and unfounded conspiracies surrounding the unfortunate explosion”, Onilu said, the “accidental explosion occurred in a vehicle transporting explosives to a storage facility in a neighbouring state.”
APC urged the state government to put place in measure to ease the pains of the victims.
