Covid-19: Alleging Incompetence, PDP Urges Buhari To Dissolve PTF |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the Presidential Task Force on  Covid-19 Pandemic headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently sack it for crass incompetence.

In a statement signed by Party’s  National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party said beyond announcing infections and fatalities, the PTF has not shown it is capable of handling the pandemic.

“More distressing is that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has not demonstrated any capacity beyond mere announcement of figures of infected persons, deaths, recoveries, discharges and issues of local protocols rather than engaging in epidemiology, researches and production of equipment, drugs, therapeutics and other medical palliatives that can help stave off the impact of the global pandemic.

“On account of this, the PDP restates our demands for the dissolution of the PTF and in its place allow a convergence of experts in a special department under the purview of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control to professionally tackle the pandemic, rather than allowing an Incompetent body to take charge”.

Since the second wave of the Pandemic, the rate of infection and deaths have increased astronomically.