More than a dozen Nigerians in the United Kingdom on Friday marched to the Abuja House in London to “Protest the presence of President Buhari in the United Kingdom”
It will be recalled that it was reported that President Buhari traveled to the UK on Tuesday for a routine medical check-up
The scope News learnt that The President will be there for a couple of weeks and likely to return to Nigeria to resume dutuies by the middle of the month. However, this is on the grounds that the doctors grant him a clean bill of health.
The protesters, asked the president to return to Nigeria and fix its healthcare system, instead of seeking medical aid in another country.
Nigerians reacting are pertubed that Buhari left the country for a ‘routine medical checkup’ days before doctors in Nigeria, under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors in Nigeria (NARD), embarked on strike over unpaid emoluments and other agitations.
Omokri, who led other protesters, also said the president had sent soldiers to shoot at peaceful protesters in Lekki, Lagos State, on October 20, 2020.
According to Omokri, who was an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, since Buhari’s assumption of office in 2015, he had budgeted N10.2 billion for Aso Rock healthcare but had failed to build good hospitals that could treat him and other Nigerians.
“You are not building hospitals for people and you are coming here to come and enjoy the best of the health sector in a country that has law and order,” Omokri said in video footage posted on his Twitter handle.
With the Twitter hashtag #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon, some other Nigerians also joined in the calls for the president to come back to Nigeria and fix the nation’s health system.
Buhari’s decision to proceed on a foreign medical trip came at a time doctors in the country threatened to embark on an indefinite strike over unpaid salary arrears and poor working conditions.
The President has spent 170 days abroad for treatment since he was elected in 2015.
In a video that had gone viral on the internet, the protesters were seen chanting protest songs while welding placards of different inscriptions.
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A spokesman of the protesters, a former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, who wore an ENDSARS shirt, said the protest was to kick against President Buhari’s tyrannical administration.
He said: “We are here because we have a tyrant in that building. This is a man who on October 20 last year sent soldiers to kill peaceful and unarmed protesters.”
He alleged that Buhari ordered the shooting of the #ENDSARS protesters who were asking for good governance in the country.
He stressed that despite the huge allocation for the State House clinic, the Buhari administration has not been able to establish a hospital capable of treating the President.
However, the very limited number of these London based protester indicate the low level support this protest has among the Nigerians living in the UK.
