Despite taking the vaccine, a number of presidential aides have reportedly tested positive to Covid-19 and are now on self-isolation, with some needed treatment.
Those affected are the permanent secretary in the State House, Tijani Umar; the President’s Aide-de-camp (ADC), Yusuf Dodo; his chief security officer (CSO), Aliyu Musa, and his senior special assistant (media and publicity), Garba Shehu.
Presidency sources disclosed that the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, is also down with coronavirus. They were said to have been careless at a recent social meeting inside a room in Aso Rock, leading to exposure to someone they didn't know have the virus.
A report by PT quoted Shehu as saying: “I have no confirmation of the cases you mentioned, but yes I have been afflicted by the mild variant of the COVID-19. I felt okay from the beginning, maybe because one had received all three jabs, and right now, I feel 100 per cent. I just finished my hour-long running exercise.
“But the strange thing about this ailment is that it is the scientists, not you, that will say you are okay. Right now, I’m taking my prescriptions and isolating, and would go back for a test to ascertain if the virus is still here or it has left me. Thanks for your goodwill.”
It is believed that the recent directive by the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, to her staff to proceed on indefinite leave is not unconnected with the need to check the possible spread of coronavirus in the villa.
Testing had recently been ramp up in the presidential villa in the wake of the Omicron variant.
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