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Nigerians are furious after the government announced that President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London on Tuesday for a “routine medical checkup.”
A statement by the presidential spokeswoman, Femi Adesina, did not reveal the condition of President Buhari, but assured Nigerians that the president will return home in the second week of April.
Many Nigerians expressed dismay at Buhari’s trips to the UK to seek medical attention.
PHOTONEWS: Buhari leaves Abuja for a medical check-up in London pic.twitter.com/SvicVsV9cg
– Nigerian Tribune (@nigeriantribune) March 30, 2021
Some have called it a waste of taxpayer money, while others criticized the government’s failure to build world-class hospitals in Nigeria.
A human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has advised Nigerians in the UK to occupy the London hospital where Buhari plans to get a medical check-up.
Nigerians in the UK should #occupy the hospital was sick @mbuhari is wasting the resources of Nigeria and the Nigerian embassy, as well as Abuja Hiuse in London, let Buhari go home and get a medical check-up at the “world-class” hospital that he has built since he came to power. #Buharimustgo!
– Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) March 30, 2021
Many Nigerians took to Twitter to show their frustrations with the hashtag #Buharimustgo, which was trending on Tuesday.
Lifeless President Buhari leaves for London for a medical trip to recharge his battery as Nigerian doctors go on strike on April 1. So there’s no clinic in asking Rock to check it out?
How else do you define futility? While doctors will go on strike for unpaid wages. #BuhariMust Go pic.twitter.com/SdzMPzSXJ1
– Isaac Obasi ⚖️ (@ObasiFoundation) March 30, 2021
President Buhari has visited London for medical reasons since he first took office as president on May 29, 2015.
On February 5, 2016, Buhari embarks on a six-day medical vacation to London for an undisclosed illness.
He spent 104 days in 2017 after a long medical visit in London.
President Buhari, a retired general who led a military regime in the 1980s, has been haunted by speculation about his health since June last year, when he first went to London for treatment.
He then spent almost two months in London in January and February and said upon his return in early March that he had “never been so ill”.
In 2017, there were a series of protests in Abuja demanding that Buhari return or resign if he could not continue.
Meanwhile, Nigerian doctors will begin their strike on April 1, to protest wage delays, among other vital issues.
Health professionals are demanding, among other things, the payment of all back wages, the revision of the current risk allowance to 50 percent of the consolidated base wages of all health workers and the payment of the allowance Covid-19 incentive pending, especially in the state-owned tertiary sector. Institutions.
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