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Nigerians Commence Anti-Buhari Protest In London
Some Nigerians have laid siege to Abuja House in London, where President Muhammadu Buhari is believed to be staying in the course of his medical check-up to protest his presence in the country.
The Nigerians led by Reno Omokiri, though a handful, caused enough nuisance for the visiting president for the police to come around. However, they were not arrested. However, they were not detained and were let go after explaining that they kept COVID-19 protocol including moving around in batches of not more than six.
Omokiri, a former presidential aide in the Goodluck Jonathan administration who is now based in California flew across the Atlantic to lead the demonstration.
GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported President Buhari’s trip to the United Kingdom for what presidency officials said was a routine medical check up with his doctors.
Mallam Garba Shehu in defending the trip had said that Buhari had been having the yearly check up with his doctors even before he emerged as president in 2015.
Omokiri who led the protest against the presence of President Buhari in London, however, refused to accept the excuse saying that Buhari had in five years in office not built a hospital and had not improved the Aso Rock Clinic despite appropriating N10.2 billion.
He said:
“Muhammadu Buhari on 20th of October sent soldiers to Lekki Tollgate to kill unarmed protesters. What were they asking for? They were asking for good governance. They did not go with guns. This is a man that is rehabilitating Boko Haram that has been killing people.
“When his son, Yusuf had an accident, I prayed for Yusuf, Google it and then you sent soldiers to kill Nigerians that were praying for you when your son had an accident.
“He has been in office for five years, and in those five years he has budgeted N10.2 billion for Aso Rock Clinic ($26million) and you mean in those five years, you cannot build one hospital that can treat you and other Nigerians,” Omokiri asked at the London protest against Buhari.
“The reason Nigerians voted PDP out is that this man, Muhammadu Buhari, said that I can do better than PDP. Jonathan built the National Trauma Centre, the only trauma centre in Nigeria, he built cancer centres in four of the six geopolitical zones. This man has been in office, what hospital has he built?
Noting the ongoing doctors’ strike in Nigeria as another reason to protest the presence of President Buhari in London, he said:
“He left office the day that doctors began their strike. Only 5% of Nigerians have access to doctors. Only 5%! You have not built hospitals for people and then you are now coming here to enjoy the best of the health sector in a country that has law and order.”
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