A Nigerian activist has condemned former President Muhammadu Buhari for dying in a London hospital, describing it as a final betrayal of the nation’s struggling healthcare system.
Adetoun Onajobi, a prominent social commentator, criticised Buhari for failing to build public trust in local hospitals despite his repeated promises to improve them. In a widely shared video, she questioned why a leader who governed for eight years could not rely on the healthcare services he presided over.
“There is no reason to mourn a leader who did nothing to fix the health sector,” Ms Onajobi said. “He spent eight years making noise about building hospitals, yet he never trusted them when his life depended on it.”
She went on to accuse successive Nigerian leaders of hypocrisy for spending billions on overseas medical trips while ordinary citizens die in underfunded and poorly equipped hospitals at home.
“It is unfair for leaders who neglected the people to receive grand national burials paid for with public funds,” she added.
Ms Onajobi urged President Bola Tinubu to end the cycle of health tourism and instead work to strengthen the country’s hospitals so that citizens no longer feel compelled to seek treatment abroad.
