Oshiomhole blasts Edo PDP over comment on hospital
The immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) criticisms on the newly built Central Hospital Complex Benin, as the “cry of people still leaking their wounds from the Supreme Court defeat.
The former governor, who was reacting to the allegation by the PDP that he borrowed equipment to bring to the hospital to deceive President Muhammadu Buhari when he came to commission the project last year, Oshiomhole said the contractor who supplied the equipment has been doing so and they are being mounted, adding that what delayed the completion was the scarcity of foreign exchange which has been sorted out.
His words: First is that it is good news for them to agree that first a new hospital has been built because in some other statements they had said they saw no new hospital. I have seen PDP turn out numbers that did not make sense even to a fool as regards the amount of the project. The only point that I think is worth commenting is when I read somewhere that we hired or borrowed equipment to bring to the hospital for the President to commission.
Again, it shows how empty headed PDP leadership in Edo State and their spokesperson are. If you borrowed equipment from someone, how come the lender has not come to recover his equipment? And those equipment’s are still there. The fortunate thing which everybody knows is the fact that the government I headed paid 75 per cent of the total value of the equipment that we had ordered and they are state-of-the-art equipment.
As you can see even from the one that has been delivered and installed. But the contractor which is not a one man business, Verment, they are not one local contractor that PDP can go and sublet contract to. Verment is recognised even in Europe, they run the largest hospital in Austria, they are world class hospital equipment manufacturers but they just got caught in the foreign exchange crisis, that they could not get enough forex to procure in order for the equipment.
And these are not equipment you order off the shelf. And as we speak, go to that hospital tomorrow, you will find that equipment are coming and they are installing them. And here I must thank the CBN Governor who I had to call on the phone to assist us. And today, the equipment are arriving and they are installing, and I know for sure from my last inquiry, I know that they will be done by October.
Then the hospital will have state-of-the-art equipment better than any hospital anywhere in Nigeria by the time those equipment are installed. And that is my dream and I am glad that is the reality.
So I don’t want to join issues with people who are leaking their wounds. I think my pride is that the PDP said who is he, he thinks that politics is labour, we will teach him a lesson and under eight years? I am their professor and they are all failed politicians from their Oga to the least of them”.
