Former Vice President and the 2019 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government to use the $1.5 billion budgeted for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery, to build world standard Hospitals in Nigeria,
This comes amid criticisms of the President still going abroad for Medical checkups, while abandoning the poor health sector in Nigeria to decay..
He stated on Twitter: “Rather than spend $1.5 billion on a loss-making refinery, would it not make better economic sense, as well as ensure social justice, to use that money to build mass Hospitals for our people.
“And provide our Doctors with better working conditions, so every Nigerian has access to quality healthcare?”
Atiku had earlier said that “to therefore budget the sum of $1.5 billion to renovate or turn around the Port Harcourt refinery, would appear to be an unwise use of scarce funds, at this critical juncture for a multiplicity of reasons.”
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