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Okpebholo, Oshiomhole Lack Moral Grounds To Speak On Hospital Standards
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City
The Edo State’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the newly sworn in governor, Monday Okpebholo and his Commissioner for Health, Dr. Cyril Oshiomhole lacks the moral grounds to speak on standards of the Stella Obasanjo Hospital or any other hospital in the State.
In a statement, Publicity Secretary of the Edo PDP Caretaker Committee, Chris Osa Nehikhare, said it was ironic and laughable that Cyril Oshiomhole, whose father, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, as governor of the State superintended the sham construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital where a section collapsed, due to structural defects, killing two innocent Edo citizens would speak on the standards of a hospital.
The PDP therefore chided the Monday Okpebholo-led government for desperately attempting to diminish the undeniable impact of the Stella Obasanjo Hospital on the State’s healthcare system for political reasons, describing the ploy as petty, ignoble and infantile.
Nehikhare further stated that, “We are appalled and utterly disappointed by the petty, infantile and ignoble behavior of the Monday Okpebholo-led administration in attempting to diminish the undeniable impact of the Stella Obasanjo Hospital on the State’s healthcare system.
“It is widely acknowledged by anyone who has visited or used the hospital that it ranks as one of the best in the South-South region, if not the entire country and this was made possible by the huge investment made by the immediate past government of His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in upgrading and equipping the hospital to world-class standards.
“We are not surprised by the childish criticism coming from a clueless and incompetent government. Had they been discerning, they would have known that it is to the credit of the state and its government that a hospital of such significance and impact is located in the State and would not have desperately sought to diminish this for petty political reason.”
According to him, It is particularly laughable and ridiculous that Cyril Oshiomhole, the son of the former governor of the state, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole is the one making these unfounded claims, lamenting about a non-existent structural defect, when it was his father, who as governor, superintended the construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital, where a section of the building collapsed due to structural defects, killing at least two innocent Edo citizens.
Adding that, For someone with such a history, it is only hypocritical to point fingers at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital, disparaging the fully functional and operational facility where no lives have been lost when his father’s greed and selfishness led to the death of innocent people. He therefore lacks any moral standing to do.”
Nehikhare queried, “Or does Cyril Oshiomhole think we have forgotten in a hurry how his father, Adams Oshiomhole as governor brought the then President Muhammadu Buhari to commission an empty Edo Specialist Hospital without facilities or personnel?
“Or how his father went to Lagos to hire equipments and put on display for the commissioning of the Edo Specialist Hospital and how in the evening of the commissioning, loaded a truck with the rented equipments and returned same to the company located on Agege Motor Road, in Lagos, and placed the hospital under lock and key?
“Does a person from such a deceitful and wicked lineage have the moral fiber to criticize or describe a functional, operational and world-class hospital, renowned as one of the best in South-South region as with structural defect?”
He added, “We urge Cyril Oshiomhole and the Okpebholo-led government to bury their heads in shame, while appreciating the impact and transformation that has happened at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital under the sterling leadership of the immediate past governor, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.”
