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The Council said this through its President General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar in Abuja, the Nigeria capital.
Sultan spoke at a meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire; and the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib.
The Sultan maintained that the NSCIA has endorsed the vaccine but the council will not decide for anyone whether or not to take the jab.
Recently, there has been controversies over the effectiveness of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines but the Nigerian authorities decided to meet with the Muslim scholars and imams headed by the Sultan to seek their support.
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Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, announced that the task force was working to begin the vaccination of religious and traditional leaders.
He said that the objective was to boost the confidence of the public and commended the support given to the government by Islamic scholars and imams in the management of the virus.
On his part, Ehanire, reiterated that the AstraZeneca vaccine was safe and those who have already been vaccinated, including himself, have not experienced any side effect.
He added that the involvement of the religious leaders is to speed up the administration of the vaccine, considering the impact of the disease on the Nigerian population.
The NPHCDA boss, on his part, maintained that the government decided to convene the meeting in order to clear the air on the lingering controversy and commence mass vaccination.
He added that the European Union Medicines Council had reversed its initial decision to stop the use of the vaccine and said it was safe for use.
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