Abbas constitutes ad hoc committee to meet Tinubu on Doctors' strike

Seeks two- weeks grace period

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, in a bid to mitigate the planned strike by Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has set up an ad hoc committee to meet with President Bola Tinubu.

The Speaker further appealed to the resident doctors to give the house leadership a two-week period to find solutions to the issues raised.

The meeting was held largely behind closed doors but Abass made his line of action public in a memo he posted on his official Twitter handle, Monday, 24th of July, 2023.

NARD, on July 5, issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government for the implementation of all its demands.

OUTCOME OF MY CLOSED DOOR MEETING WITH THE RESIDENT DOCTORS.

●To meet the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. pic.twitter.com/wHl6FxYLTB

— Hon Abbas Tajudeen, PhD. (@Speaker_Abbas) July 24, 2023