The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign has said that Nigerians are worse off today than they were four years ago due to the poor quality of leadership provided by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration.
The opposition party decried the slide in the quality of Nigeria’s health care delivery services as well as the lingering fuel crisis in the country.
Deputy Director of the APC campaign, Senator Olorunumbe Mamora, said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Monday.
Mamora expressed the campaigns’ disappointment over what he described as the obvious fact that Nigeria could not meet the Millennium Development Goals, despite the fact that the government had said that Nigeria’s economy was the largest economy in Africa.
He said, “Four years after, our health institutions, most especially at the tertiary level, have witnessed a systemic decay with doctors’ and other health workers’ prolonged labour disputes never seen in history of Nigeria. Salaries of most health workers at the federal level have not been paid till date.
“In the recent World Health Organisation ranking of the World Health Systems, Nigeria was ranked 187 out of 190 countries. What a pity. South Africa, Angola, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco ranked better than Nigeria despite our oil wealth; yet our public officers and their family members travel abroad for most mundane health-related matters.
“According to UNICEF Nigeria, every single day Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five year-olds and 145 women of childbearing age. This makes the country the second largest contributor to the under–five and maternal mortality rate in the world.”
But the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abduallahi Jalo, said the APC had lost touch with the reality.
via nigerianeye
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