Buhari Should Beg For Not Wearing Facemask – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed dismay over reports that President Muhammadu Buhari violated his own executive regulation on compulsory wearing of face masks and social distancing in public gatherings. The party has thus said that Buhari should beg for pardon for the offence it said carries six months jail sentence.

The PDP in a statement on Sunday said such breaches of the law were at the root of the failure of the All Progressives Congress, APC led Federal Government to enthrone order in governance.

“The PDP asserts that it is a huge national embarrassment and  gross failure of leadership that President Buhari, who ought to lead by example, is being reported of publicly violating the COVID-19 regulation, which he signed just five days ago,” the PDP said in the statment issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbodinyan.

“It is indeed scandalous that while Nigerians are striving to obey the COVID-19 regulation, which stipulates the compulsory wearing of nose mask and physical distancing in the public, they are being confronted with reports of open violation of the law by Mr. President at the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s membership revalidation exercise in his hometown, Daura, Katsina state on Saturday.

Before saying that Buhari should beg for not wearing the face mask, the PDP said:

“The media is awash with reports and pictures of Mr. President in public, discussing with his party leaders at the event without putting on a nose mask or maintaining social distancing as stipulated by the new law.

“Such disregard to law and rules, which have characterized the Buhari Presidency and the APC, is largely responsible for the failure of leadership under the Buhari-led APC administration in the last five years.

“Moreover, this development has further shown that the Buhari Presidency and the APC are more interested in partisan politics than the health and wellbeing of our nation.

“We ask, with this violation, does the Buhari administration and its officials  still have the rectitude to enforce sanctions on any other defaulter in the absence of necessary regrets by President Buhari and his party, the APC?

“In this regard the onus lies on President Buhari and the APC to clean up the mess by tendering an unreserved apology to Nigerians and take steps to observe necessary regrets over this violation.

“Furthermore, the PDP, as a law-abiding party, urges Nigerians not  to emulate such examples, but continue to exert themselves in observing all COVID-19 protocols placed to check the spread of the pandemic in our country.”

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