The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised President Bola Tinubu for his frequent overseas trips, describing them as insensitive.

On Thursday, the Presidency announced that Tinubu would be embarking on a 10-day vacation to Europe.

“The vacation will last 10 working days,” the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said.

Reacting to the development while speaking to Punch, the PDP Deputy Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, lamented that taxpayers’ money is being wasted on unnecessary trips.

He asserted that the president’s frequent trips show a lack of faith in the country’s health care system.

Osadolor stated, “I think the president’s frequent trips are highly insensitive, and they show a lack of faith in our national health care system because the reason he is travelling is for medical tourism.

“Imagine the billions of naira that will be spent as estacodes and used in paying frivolous charges that those foreign hospitals might have given to him, as well as the travel expenses for him, his caregivers, and the hangers-on that will have gone on this trip. Imagine the state of our local health facilities in this country.

“Let’s assume he is not even interested in giving all Nigerians affordable quality health care or building world-class facilities in different zones of the country. The Aso Rock Clinic, where we have billions of naira voted into its budget annually, year after year, what is the state of that facility?

“We have never heard that the president went to Aso Rock Villa to take a check-up or to take an injection, but rather we hear he has jetted to France.”

The PDP leader called on President Tinubu to refrain from seeking re-election, while urging Nigerians to reject both him and the All Progressives Congress.

Osadolor continued, “He has jetted to the U.S. He has jetted to the United Kingdom or is around the world seeking treatment. It is quite insensitive to the suffering of all Nigerians who struggle every day to make ends meet and whose tax is being used to fund this medical tourism.

“For me, I think that this government should not only apologise to Nigerians for its insensitivity and incapacities, but it should at best tell Nigerians the honest truth that it lacks the requisite capacity to deliver affordable health care and security for the lives of Nigerian people and therefore it should not stand in the next general elections to ask for the mandate of Nigerians.

“Or, in the alternative, Nigerians should realise by now, two years into the administration, without a single spectacular effort or landmark being achieved by this government in the health sector, that this government is not the one fit and proper to deliver affordable health care and security for Nigerians.

“And therefore, that should be more than enough resolve to kick out this government at the next poll and look for a credible alternative.”