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The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has called on the citizens
of the state to prevail on Governor Godwin Obaseki, not to hand over the
reconstructed Benin Central Hospital to private partners, declaring
that such move will make the hospital inaccessible to the people of the
state.
Obaseki
had earlier this month, said the government could not afford to run the
hospital due to lack of manpower and huge resources needed to equip it,
informing that his government would partner a private firm to run the
hospital.
However,
at a media briefing on Saturday, the state chairman of the PDP, Dan
Orbih, who regretted that the hospital had not been put to use about one
year after it was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari, blamed
former Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, for the situation.
He alleged that Oshiomhole succeeded in building a hall and called it hospital.
He
said: “Now (Governor) Obaseki has come out publicly to say that he
could not fund the Central Hospital and that they will get private
partners to run it.
“Recall
that during the commissioning of the hospital by President Buhari,
former governor Adams Oshiomhole described it as a first in Africa
five-star hospital that was fully equipped to answer the health needs of
the people.”
He
accused Governor Obaseki of acting Oshiomhole’s script, saying he had
long uncovered a plot hatched by the duo to bring in “companies run by
their children as partners to run the hospital.”
Speaking
on the party’s governorship election petition that was thrown out by
the Supreme Court on Monday, Orbih said the party still has a
pre-election case in court challenging the qualifications of Godwin
Obaseki, saying “we shall pursue it to a logical conclusion.”
Orbih
reacted to a statement credited to Obaseki that his government would
not consider any PDP member for appointment in his government, saying
the Edo PDP family was not interested in any appointment from the
governor because he is not the right person to occupy the office of
governor amongst other reasons.
He
charged members of the party to bury their differences and start
preparing for the 2019 general election, remarking that Edo people and
indeed Nigerians are tired of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Orbih
said, “this is the time for stocktaking. As a party, we must learn from
our mistakes and move forward stronger than we were.”
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