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  • Updated: March 24, 2020

Coronavirus: PDP, CUPP Speak On Abba Kyari's Test Result

Coronavirus: PDP, CUPP Speak On Abba Kyari's Test Result

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the opposition coalition, CUPP, have reacted to the health status of President Muhammad Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. 

Mr Kyari, who recently arrived in Nigeria from Germany, tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. However, President Buhari tested negative. 

He was said to have travelled to Germany where he is suspected to have contracted the disease on March 7 and returned about a week later.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Nigeria has recorded a total of 42 Covid-19 cases, two deaths, and two recoveries. The forty cases cut across patients from Abuja, Lagos, Edo, Oyo, Ekiti and Ogun states.

PDP asked President Buhari to immediately address the nation on the status of the Presidential Villa, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The party, in a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, said it was reacting to reports that President Buhari's Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, had tested positive to the deadly coronavirus disease.

The PDP, however, noted that though President Buhari was reported to have tested negative to the virus, "it is yet imperative that he douses public tension by addressing a distressed nation on the status of the Villa, especially given that other officials, like Abba Kyari, had travelled to high-risk countries in the course of their duties." 

"The party notes that an address on the situation in the Presidential villa will further douse public concerns about the status of certain key officials, who have not been visible in the last few days." 

Accordingly, CUPP called for the immediate isolation of some Governors and other people who had contacts with President Muhammadu Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. 

This was contained in a statement of Tuesday, which was signed by the coalition's spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. 

"We wish the Chief of Staff speedy recovery and pray for divine intervention for him. We call that the best possible hands and all available resources be deployed to ensure the safety of Mallam Abba Kyari. He is obviously a resource to the Presidency and a trusted confidant of the President and his wellbeing will keep the President in a good frame of mind to diligently lead our country in these very trying times."

"We also use this opportunity to urge President Muhammadu Buhari to see this clean bill of health as a divine chance to be more proactive and do all within his powers to protect all Nigerians from this dreaded COVI-19. This chance must neither be misused nor missed as our continued nationhood now hinges strongly on it."

"The CUPP also calls for immediate self-isolation and testing of every person who has had cause to visit the Aso Rock Presidential Villa since Mallam Abba Kyari returned to the country from his foreign trip."

"The Vice President, All Ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of Service, all APC Governors who attended the APC leadership peace meeting, the Bayelsa State Governor who also visited the President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives who also met with the President on the 16th of March, all who attended the Commissioning of the Emergency Number 112 by the President on 19th March and indeed all who have visited the Villa or met with the Chief of Staff to the President since that time," the statement read in parts. 

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