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5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by udomoh(m): 10:15am On Jul 25, 2019
Reasons Buhari dropped Isaac Adewole as Health Minister

The ministerial list has been released by the President and nominees are currently being screened by the Senate. About 60 percent of ministers returned but conspicuously missing on the list is Prof Isaac Adewole, the immediate past minister of health and former vice chancellor of the prestigious University of Ibadan.

The Nigerian Health Blog has done some researches into the reasons the man described as ‘academically brilliant’ was dropped by President Muhammadu Buhari and here are our findings.

1. Poor performance

The Nigerian Health Blog can unequivocally tell you that Prof. Isaac Adewole even with his academic qualifications and wealth of experience performed below par. In his time, our health indices dropped from bad to worse. Aside from building and upgrading the cancer center in Lagos University Teaching (LUTH), facilities in other teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres across the country are in shambles or at best inadequate. In his time, the chances of a patient having access to specialist care became slimmer and our health indices which was already bad became terrible .

2. Low Health Budgets/ Poor budgetary implementations

Professor Folorunsho Adewole throughout his 4 year stinct as health minister failed to acknowledge population growth in his budgetary allocation and consistently churned out budgets that is at best suitable for just buying an MRI machine and nothing more. Between 2016 to 2019, the budget he proposed and passed to meet the health needs of over 200million Nigerians were: N221.7 billion in 2016, 138 billion in 2017, N356.46bn in 2018 and N365.76bn in 2019.

His budgetary allocation does not even meet up to 5 percent of the total National budget. This was a complete mockery of the Abuja declaration or WHO recommendation which clearly stated health budget should be 15 percent of the total National allocation.

3. Increased industrial action in the health sector during his tenure as Minister

Prof Adewole’s stinct as Minister was dogged with one strike or the other in the health sector. If it is not the Nigeria Medical Association today, it will be the Joint Health Workers Union tomorrow. Mind you, a good number of Nigerians die or suffer severe complications during these unending strike actions. He also failed to resolve the unhealthy rivalry between the doctors and other health care providers that have long diminished health care delivery in this country . Don’t forget that he was fingered in the crisis that rocked the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

4. Brain Drain/Massive exodus of doctors from Nigeria

You may not appreciate the import of this. But go to our hospitals, the place is scanty of professional nurses and doctors. Most Nigerian doctors and nurses have left the shores of this country for greener pastures abroad. The ones you see are either writing international medical exams to the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai etc or are already on their way out. The main reasons for this exodus are simple: poor income, poor facilities and poor specialist training. This migration though has been a problem that pre-dated the minister but it skyrocketed in his time.

And finally, the one that nailed him and cast his position as Minister in bad light which is still trending is number 5.

5. “Not all doctors will be specialists, some can be farmers”

While answering questions from journalists in a video that has been circulating on social media, the minister was asked why Nigerian doctors have to wait for a long time to get residency training.

In response, the minister casually said that all doctors cannot become specialists and can try their hands at other things like farming or politics. While still failing to answer to question, he said his tailor makes the best gowns despite being a doctor.

He said, “It might sound selfish, but we can’t all be specialists. We can’t. Some will be farmers, some will be politicians.

“The man who sews my gown is a doctor. He makes the best gown. And some will be specialists, some will be GPs, some will be farmers.”

What more do you need to drop a minister other than above?

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/07/25/5-reasons-buhari-dropped-isaac-adewole-as-health-minister/?amp

Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by powerhouse3(m): 10:18am On Jul 25, 2019
To think that this guy was a VC, not just VC. But UI VC, to make that 'not all doctor can be specialist' comment

I hope he will heed to his own advice and move to agriculture since no ministerial appointment for him

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by Prompto: 10:18am On Jul 25, 2019
Waiting on your list of why all Igbo ministers were dropped as well. Sebi many of you foolish Igbos say una foolish exceedingly.
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by Nobody: 10:18am On Jul 25, 2019
Some of these Professors are damn poor.
They know next to nothing but theoretical postulations

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by WATCHOVER(m): 10:30am On Jul 25, 2019
Op that is not the reason abeg. The Man no work for Buhari in the last election. You scratch my back I scratch yours

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by iammo(m): 10:46am On Jul 25, 2019
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Nonsense write up, his issue was about NHIS

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by FarahAideed: 10:52am On Jul 25, 2019
Poor performance ? Buhari has no right to drop anybody for poor performance

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by lordkush: 10:56am On Jul 25, 2019
one of the numerous senile dwarfs in apc. ngige. osinbajo tinubu. elrufai.


short aggressive beings

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by blackpanda: 11:00am On Jul 25, 2019
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lordkush:
one of the numerous senile dwarfs in apc. ngige. osinbajo tinubu. elrufai.


short aggressive beings
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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by blackpanda: 11:01am On Jul 25, 2019
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WATCHOVER:
Op that is not the reason abeg. The Man no work for Buhari in the last election. You scratch my back I scratch yours
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tHATS NOT HOW BUHARI OPERATES.
Besides u dont even know if the guy was interested in the job

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by lordkush: 11:01am On Jul 25, 2019
FarahAideed:
Poor performance ? Buhari has no right to drop anybody for poor performance
th useless buhari is the sole reason everything failed.

if police arest herdsmen. buhari through his police force will spring them out. So police don't even bother anymore.


agric Minster was helpless when ruga came because it was clear. buhari was pushing it.

evry minister could have performed. But buhari and his stiffling policies prevented them.

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Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by CoolOg: 12:00pm On Jul 25, 2019
The core politicians among them like Lai Mohammed, Fashola, Ameachi were retained. I think he was dropped because he is not a politician and how would he have helped them towards winning the second term which they will be expecting of him.

Nigeria policians usually drop all these technocrat and specialist in a particular field who doesn't have political weight if they refuse to enter the mud with them.

All the reasons listed above are just mere cock and bull stories.

Where is Ibe Kachukwu in that list too. He wasn't retain also
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by GoodofNaija: 12:27pm On Jul 25, 2019
Zombies and their propaganda to defend their lazy oga grin

Buhari does not even know how to measure performance not to talk of rating performance.

To Buhari, performance means something else, like you must be a zombie i.e. someone who cannot reason well, you must be a jihadist or condone his islamist/violent tendencies, you must be corrupt so that he will have something to control you so you won't be able to speak against him and his islamization agenda.
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by Oksman(m): 1:02pm On Jul 25, 2019
udomoh:
Reasons Buhari dropped Isaac Adewole as Health Minister

The ministerial list has been released by the President and nominees are currently being screened by the Senate. About 60 percent of ministers returned but conspicuously missing on the list is Prof Isaac Adewole, the immediate past minister of health and former vice chancellor of the prestigious University of Ibadan.

The Nigerian Health Blog has done some researches into the reasons the man described as ‘academically brilliant’ was dropped by President Muhammadu Buhari and here are our findings.

1. Poor performance

The Nigerian Health Blog can unequivocally tell you that Prof. Isaac Adewole even with his academic qualifications and wealth of experience performed below par. In his time, our health indices dropped from bad to worse. Aside from building and upgrading the cancer center in Lagos University Teaching (LUTH), facilities in other teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres across the country are in shambles or at best inadequate. In his time, the chances of a patient having access to specialist care became slimmer and our health indices which was already bad became terrible .

2. Low Health Budgets/ Poor budgetary implementations

Professor Folorunsho Adewole throughout his 4 year stinct as health minister failed to acknowledge population growth in his budgetary allocation and consistently churned out budgets that is at best suitable for just buying an MRI machine and nothing more. Between 2016 to 2019, the budget he proposed and passed to meet the health needs of over 200million Nigerians were: N221.7 billion in 2016, 138 billion in 2017, N356.46bn in 2018 and N365.76bn in 2019.

His budgetary allocation does not even meet up to 5 percent of the total National budget. This was a complete mockery of the Abuja declaration or WHO recommendation which clearly stated health budget should be 15 percent of the total National allocation.

3. Increased industrial action in the health sector during his tenure as Minister

Prof Adewole’s stinct as Minister was dogged with one strike or the other in the health sector. If it is not the Nigeria Medical Association today, it will be the Joint Health Workers Union tomorrow. Mind you, a good number of Nigerians die or suffer severe complications during these unending strike actions. He also failed to resolve the unhealthy rivalry between the doctors and other health care providers that have long diminished health care delivery in this country . Don’t forget that he was fingered in the crisis that rocked the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

4. Brain Drain/Massive exodus of doctors from Nigeria

You may not appreciate the import of this. But go to our hospitals, the place is scanty of professional nurses and doctors. Most Nigerian doctors and nurses have left the shores of this country for greener pastures abroad. The ones you see are either writing international medical exams to the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai etc or are already on their way out. The main reasons for this exodus are simple: poor income, poor facilities and poor specialist training. This migration though has been a problem that pre-dated the minister but it skyrocketed in his time.

And finally, the one that nailed him and cast his position as Minister in bad light which is still trending is number 5.

5. “Not all doctors will be specialists, some can be farmers”

While answering questions from journalists in a video that has been circulating on social media, the minister was asked why Nigerian doctors have to wait for a long time to get residency training.

In response, the minister casually said that all doctors cannot become specialists and can try their hands at other things like farming or politics. While still failing to answer to question, he said his tailor makes the best gowns despite being a doctor.

He said, “It might sound selfish, but we can’t all be specialists. We can’t. Some will be farmers, some will be politicians.

“The man who sews my gown is a doctor. He makes the best gown. And some will be specialists, some will be GPs, some will be farmers.”

What more do you need to drop a minister other than above?

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/07/25/5-reasons-buhari-dropped-isaac-adewole-as-health-minister/?amp



Rubbish! Any minister that was dropped was because he performed above average, this govt. takes delight in retaining failures. The NHIS saga comes to mind.
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by oyatz(m): 10:48pm On Jul 25, 2019
Prof Adewole is an erudite scholar, a great doctor and a seasoned administrator.



powerhouse3:
To think that this guy was a VC, not just VC. But UI VC, to make that 'not all doctor can be specialist' comment

I hope he will heed to his own advice and move to agriculture since no ministerial appointment for him
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by Wiseandtrue(f): 6:51am On Jul 26, 2019
powerhouse3:
To think that this guy was a VC, not just VC. But UI VC, to make that 'not all doctor can be specialist' comment

I hope he will heed to his own advice and move to agriculture since no ministerial appointment for him
Buhari's illiteracy and ideologies is robbing off on those working with him!!!

I never knew that the man is a graduate not to talk of former UI VC for tat matter
Re: 5 Reasons Buhari Dropped Isaac Adewole As Health Minister by Wiseandtrue(f): 6:58am On Jul 26, 2019
udomoh:
Reasons Buhari dropped Isaac Adewole as Health Minister

While answering questions from journalists in a video that has been circulating on social media, the minister was asked why Nigerian doctors have to wait for a long time to get residency training.

In response, the minister casually said that all doctors cannot become specialists and can try their hands at other things like farming or politics. While still failing to answer to question, he said his tailor makes the best gowns despite being a doctor.

He said, “It might sound selfish, but we can’t all be specialists. We can’t. Some will be farmers, some will be politicians.

“The man who sews my gown is a doctor. He makes the best gown. And some will be specialists, some will be GPs, some will be farmers.”


What more do you need to drop a minister other than above?

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/07/25/5-reasons-buhari-dropped-isaac-adewole-as-health-minister/?amp
grin grin grin grin grin he is simply keying into Buhari's next level!!! Abeg OP free the man!!!

For he to say this boldly, it means it's something well discussed behind the door!!!

If you note, he's not the only one saying that!!! It must have emanated from somewhere!!! He simply re-echoed the words of his master!!!

How many people have gone into farming What have the FG done about the herdsmen ravaging their hard work

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