Osun State government on Monday reacted to an allegation leveled against it by the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP) that Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration is planning to replace doctors who have abandoned their duty posts with traditional healers.

The government expressed pity for what it called the irredeemable abyss that the Peoples Democratic Party has sunk into as demonstrated by the lack of substance and hollowness that characterize its criticisms of the Aregbesola administration.

In a statement signed by the Director,  Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, the government said in an attempt to play the crucial role of opposition, PDP has exposed itself as a political party peopled with characters, who are suffering from ‘crass ignorance’ and ‘chronic intellectual deficiency.’

“The statement endorsed by the Director, Semiu Okanlawon, said that the allegation that the government intended to sack some striking doctors and replace them with tradition healers (herbalists) could only be a figment of an inelegant and unrefined minds that could only be found within the rank of PDP.

He argued that PDP’s criticism must be misplaced when put side by side with the performance of the state in the health sector as second to Lagos in the provision of sound primary health care delivery in the whole country.

“The statistics are there for the PDP to fault. Osun under Aregbesola has the enviable record of sound health delivery. To come second to Lagos in Nigeria cannot be a little feat,” the

Aregbosola

said.

The statement added, “Frankly, what is there to respond to in this PDP’s market place, naked dance?

“Weird is the logic of PDP and nothing can change the illogical reasoning of people, whose illogical ways brought Nigeria to her present predicament.

“Because of those who abandoned their jobs as a result of seemingly irreconcilable terms, the government has left no one in doubt on its efforts to deploy doctors from the state Ministry of Health, doctors in the Security agencies in the state to compliment the consultants and local governments doctors who are working.

“The native doctors idea is in the imagination of those who are touting it and honestly such thoughts can only come from PDP and no other party on earth. It amounts to a waste of time not to ignore PDP,” the statement said.