The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday
told President Goodluck Jonathan and the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop taking
credit for the country’s successful containment of
the Ebola Disease Virus (EVD).
It said it would amount to dishonesty for the
President and his party to turn what was a
collective effort to a campaign issue.
But the PDP fired back, saying the APC preferred
that “the Ebola scourge continued unabated in
Nigeria so as to have what to blame the PDP-led
government for”.
The PDP made its position known in a response
to a statement by the APC National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The APC said President Jonathan and his party
were wrong to have appropriated the credit for
the successful containment of the EVD without
giving due credit to the real heroes of the
successful battle: Dr. Stella Adadevoh and her
colleagues at the First Consultant Hospital;
officials of the ministries of Health in Lagos and
Rivers states and the patriotic Nigerian
volunteers, among others.
It described as a cheap shot and a shameless
venture the President’s decision to make the
Ebola success story a campaign issue during a
PDP rally in Benin, giving the impression that only
the PDP deserves the credit for the successful
containment of the disease.
The APC said while indeed Health Minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu exhibited the kind of
professionalism and purposefulness that are not
common with the Jonathan Administration during
the battle against Ebola, it will be uncharitable for
the PDP-led Federal Government to pretend as if
the governments of the two affected states did
nothing.
The party reminded President Jonathan that the
two states hit by Ebola, Lagos and Rivers, are
APC states, and that the promptness,
purposefulness, doggedness and determination
shown by the governors contributed largely to the
successful containment of the virulent disease.
‘’The cities of Lagos and Port Harcourt are
perhaps the largest metropolis to have ever been
hit by the EVD since the first outbreak was
recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo
almost 40 years ago, and any mishandling of the
disease could have spelt disaster not just for the
cities but for the country as a whole.
‘’But the ever-dogged and determined Governors
Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and Rotimi
Amaechi of Rivers states employed the same
winning strategies that have stood their states
out of the pack and quickly rose to the occasion,
putting in place measures that ensured a quick
curtailing of the EVD spread. The measures
include painstaking contact-tracing, unrelenting
follow-up and creative treatment of infected
patients even without access to the experimental
drug Zmapp.
‘’There is no doubt that Nigeria is fortunate that
the EVD outbreaks were recorded in those two
states. It is a measure of the high premium that
the Chief Executives of the states place on human
life, a testimony to the strong health systems
they are building and an indication of their
purposeful approach to governance that they
successfully contained the disease, thus earning
Nigeria a rare accolade from the global
community.
‘’Unlike the President and the PDP, we will also
like to give credit to the Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, for acting out of character
with the do-nothing Jonathan Administration. We
hope President Jonathan and his party will stop
making the Ebola success story in which
opposition states were the main actors a fulcrum
of their campaign for the 2015 general elections.
They cannot and should not take credit for the
containment of Ebola in Nigeria,’’ APC said.
The party also advised President Jonathan not to
use the Ebola containment effort as another tool
to divide Nigerians along party lines.
‘’President Jonathan is the most divisive
President in Nigeria’s history. He inherited a
united Nigeria, but has divided the country along
ethnic and religious lines on the altar of selfish
personal ambition and short-term opportunism. It
will amount to a monumental tragedy if the
President will again use the Ebola success story,
which has earned Nigeria a rare acclamation from
the global community, as a tool to further divide
Nigerians,’’ it said.-
THE NATION

Who should now be credited? is it apc government in lagos that worked assiduously, or pdp government that gave lagos state #200millin intervention fund, and the health minister turning lagos to his workplace. when will nigeria politicians stop mediocre politics and embrace astute one. Apc, haters party since 1800BC.

This time I'll go with Apc the real heros are gov fashola health minister W.H.O dr.stella adahevoh pdp came to the fray when the battle against evd was almost one

When there is crisis in any state of the nation whether PDP or APC, Liar Mohamadu blames the presidency and the ruling party, now that there is a breakthrough he wants to take the glory and wants the Presidency to stay away: Politics of Bitterness!!!

samflexxy:
This time I'll go with Apc the real heros are gov fashola health minister W.H.O dr.stella adahevoh pdp came to the fray when the battle against evd was almost one

Fashola and the Health minister are under who's authority?

mtcheeeeew! idiots





























Jonathan iz the Idiot

Two stupid parties hating each other since i was born.our special tanks go 2 Almight God 4 answering our prayers,nd also 2 obama who refuse 2 give us zmapp.moral lesson learnt is dat with d help of God,we can do things on our own.

Mtchew news

politics

When ebola came into Nigeria, GEJ should be blamed- APC
When ebola was contained in Nigeria, GEJ shouldn't take credit- APC.
But for foreigners, Nigeria contained ebola, and who is the president of Niegeria?- GEJ.
Whom God has blessed, no man can curse- 2face.
God will prepare table before GEJ's enemies- psalm 23

Madness is when the governor of Lagos state asks President Jonathan not to take the credit on the success recorded on the fight against Ebola. While somewhere in kano state the governor is blaming President GEJ for the bombs going off in the streets of kano.

Now tell me the janjaweedians (APC) are not playing politics with anything they can lay their hands on and I will show you the alcohol drink Lord Luggard took when he discovered Nigeria. Mtchewwww.

when Ebola first came into Nigeria APC were the once insulting and blaming GEJ. They were the same people who condemned GEJ TAN rally in PH claiming that he wanted people to get infected with Ebola, now that it has been successfully controlled, they are opening their mouth to say rubbish he deserves all the credit as far as am concerned. They never supported him instead of them to support him they were busy making unnecessary noise and were insulting him.
GEJ till 2019

Balkan:
[size=14pt]Why is Ebola Ravaging APC State?
Did Fashola and Amechi import Ebola to use as Campaign stategy?
The truth is unfolding. APC is everything evil
GEJ till Jesus comes[/size]

Haba, let's at least be constructive in our criticism. How can you make such destructive assumption?

omon24:


Haba, let's at least be constructive in our criticism. How can you make such destructive assumption?

Why are they using ebola cure for a political campaign? I am now putting the pieces together

It is lack of achievements by the PDP led federal that made them claim credit in a fight Nigerians fought together and won. I think APC is right to tell GEJ and his PDP to stop using Ebola containment as a campaign issue. If they want to take credit to themselves, how about Governor Amaechi and Fashola that spent millions in procuring health materials, training of health workers, provision of quarantine centers b4 d arrival of Fg's #200 million assistant? How about the media that work tireless to enlighten d public about Ebola? How about doctors and other health workers who put their lives in danger to attend to Ebola victims? We are not kids pls. GEJ and his PDP should tackle corruption and take credit pls. GEJ and PDP should park well Jor!