PDP Chides FG for Poor Coordination

With continued spike in the Coronavirus pandemic, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday upbraided the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government for poor coordination and management of the pandemic.

It also upbraided the presidency for seeking to transfer the brunt of its failures to articulate and coordinate an effective national response on COVID-19 pandemic on state governors, describing such as unpardonable manifestation of leadership failure.

The party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the Buhari Presidency’s decision to run to state governors for solution after it had badly muddled up the process, leading to confusion across the country and consequential spike in infection and fatality rates, was rather coming very late in the day.

The party urged Nigerians to recall how the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians repeatedly counselled the Buhari Presidency to involve state governors, the private sector and critical stakeholders for an effective multi-sectoral and multilayered approach, to no avail.

According to PDP, “The Buhari Presidency rebuffed wise counsels and settled for a parochial response marred by corruption, nepotism, incompetence and narrow-minded politics, only to now turn to seek to transfer the brunt of its colossal failure to state governors.”

The PDP described the announcement by the National Coordinator of the failed Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, that state governments should now start taking ownership of the response, as an acceptance of failure by President Buhari, who failed to lead from the front but abdicated the task to incompetent and narrow-minded officials.