Chinese doctors: PDP issues FG 48 hours ultimatum

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has issued the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration “a 48-hour ultimatum to declare the whereabouts of the medical team from China who were brought in on the ground to assist the nation in its fight against the spread of the COVID-19.”

The party issued the threat in a statement shared on its Twitter handle on Saturday night.

PDP was reacting to a declaration by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that he cannot account for the whereabouts of the Chinese team.

The party said, “More so, the minister’s statement had heightened apprehensions in the public space that the Chinese team, whose identity and activities have been shrouded in secrecy, might have been brought in by a certain cabal for another purpose outside the general public good.’’

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It said it was suspicious that Dr. Ehanire, who supervises health matters in the country and had repeatedly assured that the Chinese were brought to render medical services and training; “and even went personally to receive them at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on April 8, 2020, in an elaborately publicized event, can no longer account for the team.”

PDP said it was worried that the Buhari government was not telling Nigerians the truth, and is “playing politics with the lives of our citizens and health safety of our nation.”

It said in the statement it holds that the government’s inability to account for the Chinese team amounts to a direct betrayal of public trust, “which has heightened fears of conspiracies by certain unpatriotic interests in the APC and its administration to compromise the health architecture of our nation and expose our citizens to danger.”