Atiku takes shots at Buhari over Medical Tourism

Atiku Abubakar

Presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar has fired shots at President Muhammadu Buhari over his regular trips to London for medical purposes.

Quoting a story on Twitter where Buhari was said to have taken up the medical bill of a physically challenged corps member serving in Buhari’s hometown Daura, Katsina state, Atiku said if Buhari had invested the money he spends for his medical trips in the country’s healthcare system, he wouldn’t need to pay the bills.

Atiku wrote:

I commend @NGRPresident @MBuhari for paying medical bills of a blind corps member 5 months to the 2019 election, but I remind him that if he had invested the public funds he spends on his London medicals on public healthcare, he wouldn’t need to do this.

I commend @NGRPresident @MBuhari for paying medical bills of a blind corps member 5 months to the 2019 election, but I remind him that if he had invested the public funds he spends on his London medicals on public healthcare, he wouldn’t need to do this.https://t.co/eKmy0KoERm

— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) August 23, 2018

In a reaction to the post, this Twitter user shared this:

Interesting from this, a couple of things I didn't know.
a. Garba Shehu worked for Atiku in 2007
b. Both Atiku and especially Yaradua went abroad for medical treatment just a month to the presidential election in 2007.
3 Presidents later, still the same story.

Shame of a nation. pic.twitter.com/rRSrwQvkRg

— Gboye (@mcgboye) August 23, 2018