Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP, sent its presidential candidate in this April's election, Governor Umar Yar'Adua, to Germany for medical attention last week. First, it was claimed to be routine overdue "check up". Then, they said it was to treat "catarrh". And, finally, they admitted he was exhausted and stressed by the punishing or gruesome campaign hustings.
Whatever it was, there was soon a wild rumour that the man died! As it turned out, he did not die. He was alive, and soon joined the party's Obasanjo-led and dominated campaign train in Ado Ekiti, Southwest Nigeria, to the obvious delight of his partisans and the definite relief of all doubting or worried souls.
I leave the politics for now. Let's look at the "Health for All" question and "MDG Agenda" angle.
This man has been governor for eight years and his party has ruled at the centre for the same period, yet they couldn't provide medical facilities to cure "catarrh" or to do "check up"! They must fly abroad for such!!!
We are now telling the whole world that all our oil/gas money and limitless human and material endowments are a waste! All our teaching hospitals and general hospitals and those specialist facilities we allocate huge annual budgets to are a sham, right? All our medical schools and those consultants and professors are a joke, kwo? The National Hospital, where President Obasanjo went for his own "check up", and gleefully told Nigerians that no one need go abroad for such attention anymore, is an empty shell, abi?
In reading between the line, the world must be laughing us to scorn!
I join. Hahaha!!!
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