Medical Association, Dr Osahon Enabulele on Monday urged Nigerians to look beyond their immediate benefits, while choosing those that will manage the affairs of the Nigerian state for the next fours.
He also advised Nigerians to look at the character, health manifesto and capacity of candidates vying for political offices before give such candidates their votes.
Enabulele made the assertion in Benin City,Edo State,while condoling with the Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists,Edo State Council, Comrade Festus Alenkhe, over his mother’s death.
“I lead an organization that is not political,we do not show any public sympathy for any political party,but on issues that border on our collective existence,as a Nigerian,I am a Nigerian. The question is how do we engaged politicians,the Nigerian state is largely dominated by those that have entrapped the people with the kind of resources they have emassed,and it has been a vicious circle, every election seems to be the time for us to get it right and we never got it right.
“The question is how do we get the right leadership for the Nigerian State. Nigerians should look beyond their immediate benefits while voting for any candidate in the 2023 election. People should look at the future of Nigeria. The future of Nigerians yet unborn and look at the person that when given the mandate will guarantee the prosperity of the Nigerian state. They should selflessly commit themselves to anybody who hasthe capacity to deliver,they should look at character, integrity,most importantly, their health manifesto,if anybody comes to you without a health manifesto for the welfare and health of the citizens.If a candidate comes without an agenda on how to revive and bring prosperity to the Nigerian State and make it the real giant of Africa, people should not look at him. If you have a candidate without this qualities, even if he is from your village, don’t vote for him.
“Nigeria needs a president that can lift it from the economic situation she finds herself.”
He also advised the federal government to create more Emergency Centers for Disease Control to avoid the repeat of the COVID-19 experience and decried the brain drain currently plaguing the Nigeria health system.
“When I came back to Nigeria from the UK in 2020 during the first hit of the pandemic,I visited the centres in Yaba, Abuja, Gwagwalada and the National Hospital and I saw that we were not there as a country,it was fine on the pages of newspapers but were not there in reality.
“We thought that we need to support the countries in the Common Wealth to fight the pandemic. We thought on how the Commonwealth Medical Association will save our people from the scourge and I advised the government on the need to plug the deficiencies in the health system.”
