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How to best tackle Coronavirus in Nigeria, Atiku advises Buhari

Shalewa Williams
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Published: February 28, 2020
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Former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar has advised President Muhammadu on how to tackle Coronavirus disease confirmed in the country.

The Nigerian government had on Friday announced that an Italian man was tested positive for the disease.

According to the country’s minister of health, the patient who works in Nigeria had returned to Lagos on the 25th of February 2020.

Reacting to this on Friday, Atiku called on the Nigerian government to work with the Lagos and Ogun State Government to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country.

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He also advised the Buhari-led government to fight Coronavirus as Ebola was defeated in 2014.

The message read: “Now that Nigeria has had her first confirmed case of the Corona Virus infestation, via a citizen of Italy, who visited Lagos and Ogun states, I would want to offer my patriotic counsel to the government of General @MBuhari, on how best to tackle this issue.

“We must call upon our experience with the Wild Ebola Virus, of which we were the first nation in the world to defeat that scourge in 2014. How did Nigeria do it? We achieved it by showing unprecedented unity.”

“The federal government of the day worked closely with the Lagos and Rivers state governments. There was complete unity, solidarity and oneness of purpose, which created the atmosphere that defeated that deadly infestation.”

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“I strongly counsel that any tendency to blame and point fingers must be temporarily, if not permanently, suspended. If fingers must be pointed, it must be to solutions.”

“Nigeria needs firm and decisive actions to prevent an escalation of the scourge. Recently, we closed our borders as an act against economic sabotage. Perhaps now is the time to temporarily halt flights to and from any nation with a prevalence of this scourge.”

“It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy. We also need to invest in early detection facilities at our airports.”

“But above all, Nigeria must not panic. Whether at government or individual levels. We have defeated Ebola before, and we can defeat this present predicament.”

“This crisis is an opportunity to show that we are first and foremost Nigerians and that we have no other country but our dear fatherland, which we must work together to keep healthy and secure. “

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