COVID-19 Scare: Femi Adesina says Buhari is fine

27 Dec COVID-19 Scare: Femi Adesina says Buhari is fine

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari is fine despite reports of some of his aides testing positive. He said presidential aides going on self-isolation after testing positive to COVID-19 shows they are human and not immune to happenings around them.

Speaking during a Channels Television interview on Sunday, Adesina said:

“Well, what I like to say is that presidential aides are just human. They can fall sick. If anything happens to human beings, it can also happen to presidential aides. The fact that we are presidential aides does not make us to be immune to certain things.

“If there is a virus that is ravaging society. Well, it can touch anybody. So, Mallam Garba Shehu has confirmed that, yes, he tested positive but he said it’s mild. And I believe that by now, because it’s happened since Wednesday, by now, he should almost have beaten it if he had not beaten it already. There is no cause for alarm.”

Asked how he was holding up since he had contact with Shehu, he said: “Well, I also believe God for the best. If it happens, I’ll recover. So, that’s it.”

Asked about the number of the President’s aides in the State House who have been infected, Adesina said: “No. That will not be within my purview to discuss maybe if you get the Presidential doctor or anybody in the medical side, they will tell you, I wouldn’t know because, it is a private thing. If it happens to anybody, it’s between that person and possibly the doctor. It’s not going to be general knowledge. So I may not be able to say.”

About President Buhari, he said “Well, I think Mr. President is quite fine, he is doing his normal routine, following his normal schedule. But if anybody close to him tests positive, that person is required to stay away till he tests again, and he test negative. So, Mr. President, is following his normal schedule and routine.”

Buhari received his COVID-19 booster Pfizer Biontech vaccine last Tuesday.

On his part, Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed has denied reports that he has contracted coronavirus. In a statement by his spokesman Segun Adeyemi, he said as a member of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, he would have disclosed his status if truly he contracted the virus.