Nigerians Vent Their Frustration Against Buhari Medical Trip To UK

Some have called it a waste of taxpayers’ money while some criticized the government’s failure to build world-class hospitals in Nigeria.

A human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has advised Nigerians in the United Kingdom to occupy the London hospital where Buhari plans to have a medical checkup.

Many Nigerians took to Twitter to show their frustrations with the hashtag #Buharimustgo trending on Tuesday.

Buhari has visited London for medical reasons since he was first inaugurated President on May 29, 2015.

On February 5, 2016, Buhari embarks on a six-day medical vacation to London for an undisclosed condition.

He spent 104 days in 2017 after a long medical visit in London.

Buhari, a retired general who headed a military regime in the 1980s, has been dogged by speculation about his health since June last year when he first went to London for treatment.

He then spent nearly two months in London in January and February and said on his return in early March that he had “never been so ill”.

In 2017, there were a series of protests in Abuja demanding that Buhari return or quit if he was unable to go on.

Meanwhile, Nigerian doctors will begin their strike on April 1, to protest about delayed salaries among other vital issues.

The health practitioners are demanding, amongst other things, payment of all salaries arrears, review of the current hazard allowance to 50 percent of consolidated basic salaries of all health workers and payment of the outstanding COVID-19 inducement allowance especially in state-owned tertiary Institutions.

Below are some of the reactions from Twitter;

Why is it hard for dictator mannequin buhari and prof of lawlessness osinbajo to build a world-class hospital when they can allocate 3.2 billion naira for feeding themselves in a year? #BuhariMustGo

— OMO GOODRICE 📌 (@Apostlekay7) March 31, 2021

Nigerians in the UK please help send @mbuhari back home for his annual medical check-up at the “World Class”hospital he built in Nigeria! If you’re one of the 8,000 medical doctor of Nigerian descent in the UK you should join this fight.
#Buharimustgo #revolutionnow pic.twitter.com/rXOh1zEeVG

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) March 30, 2021

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Buhari and his hoodlums cannot think of upgrading our hospitals to be world-class, they would rather spend billions on medical tourism abroad #BuhariMustGo

— Aderibigbe Jeremiah (@Adejeremiah1) March 31, 2021

#BuhariMustGo #BuhariMustGo Buhari has gone ooo, may we not see this kind of evil again.#FreeKemiNow

— Kehinde Balogun (@Kehinde87197783) March 31, 2021

#BuhariMustGo we can’t wait for this government to just pass… Vote rightly and bet here👇👇on who you think would win the next presidential election https://t.co/50c6BuGf2f

— LawrettSurebet (@Lawrett89725971) March 31, 2021

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There are so many reasons to protest – expensive electricity, armed banditry compensated by the state while protesters gets detained illegally, fuel price hike, vat increase, ussd charges, bank charges, police brutality, unending loans and looting #BuhariMustGo

— I get Coconut Head (@BrodrickBlesing) March 31, 2021