Former presidential candidate, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has
urged the leadership of the National Assembly to invite President Muhammadu
Buhari over the coronavirus outbreak.
She noted that since Buhari has been going about and
attending events, he should be able to go to the National Assembly.
Coronavirus, already declared a global pandemic, has caused
7,000 fatalities and affected nearly 200 countries.
In a statement on Friday through her spokesperson, Ozioma
Ubabukoh, Oby Ezekwesisli said at a time when Nigeria is at war against a
rapidly escalating pandemic and an increasingly distressed, deteriorating
economy, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Buhari, is
missing in action.
Ezekwesili said Buhari should explain to the lawmakers and
the Nigerian public his administration’s strategies and efforts at containing
the coronavirus pandemic.
The co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign group,
said, “Fellow Citizens, it is grossly irresponsible of Nigeria President, General
Muhammadu Buhari, to hide away from addressing and assuring his citizens at a
time like this when leaders of other nations are doing much more.”
The former Education Minister maintained that it was grossly
incompetent of the President that he moves around “Majoring in the Minors of
declaring events open”, while his citizens are panicked about the fast
accelerating health and economic crises.”
She charged the National Assembly leadership to exercise
their oversight role and invite President Buhari to render account and plans of
his stewardship on the pandemic and economic wars the country is thrown into.
Do this now.”
Ezekwesili said the federal legislature must act swiftly to
wake up the Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria to provide the Constitutional
leadership he swore to provide, especially when the country faces any kind of
war.
She said, “NASS must quickly avert any repeat of President
Buhari’s lax counter-terrorism war that has cost the country too many lives. A
contagion from deadly #CoronaVirus must be avoided immediately. NOW! Nigeria
simply cannot afford the implications of an exponential increase in the number of
citizens infected by #CoronaVirus. It is insensitive of the President to be
mute at a time like this.
“That @followlasg published that it is already
contact-tracing 1,300 Nigerians in one way or the other linked to confirm cases
of the disease should worry us.
“Let President Buhari come out of his self-isolation and
lead his country and people to win these wars. The economic impact of the
health crisis will be severe on our majority’s extremely poor of more than 93
million. President Buhari must be reminded that leadership is not about
personal comfort”, Ezekwesili added.
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