Kindly Share This Story:By Chidi Odinkalu When it fully makes landfall in Nigeria, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic (COVID-19) will discover a country already at the mercy of pandemic-level hunger and chronic violence. The combination of virus, violence and hunger would ordinarily be a complex emergency. With President Muhammadu Buhari now evidently enfeebled, the virus arrives in a season of leadership vacuum, converting a severe public health challenge into crisis of sustaining social cohesion and political stability. Public health and political power have always had a mutually dissonant relationship. When Brigadier-General Sani Abacha informed the world on 31 December 1983 of the decision by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari to sack the elected civilian administration of Shehu Shagari in 1983, he offered an unusual reason: “Health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting clinics without drugs, water and equipment. Our educational system is deteriorating at an alarming rate.” Nearly 37 years later, the landfall of COVID-19 in Nigeria presents Muhammadu Buhari with an opportunity to advertise his achievements. The score-card The score-card is doleful. Buhari’s usurper, Ibrahim Babangida, used hospitals in Germany to treat Radiculopathy. His successor, Sani Abacha, died mysteriously in office, his… Read full this story
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