The secretariat of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has told Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, who claimed that the vaccines is meant to kill the people, that the pandemic is real and must be tackled.
In a report by Thisday, the NGF’s Director-General, Mr. Asishana Okauru, stated that the governors are considering various strategies to counter demarketing of the vaccines through public enlightenment.
The NGF made the statement following Governor Bello’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines are meant to kill the people.
Okauru insisted that the pandemic is real and, therefore, Nigerians deserve the vaccine.
Bello, who has repeatedly disregarded COVID-19 protocol and denied the existence of the virus in his state, told a crowd to reject the vaccines because they are “meant to kill.”
According to the Kogi state governor, “Vaccines are being produced in less than one year of COVID-19. There is no vaccine yet for HIV, malaria, cancer, headache and for several other diseases that are killing us. They want to use the COVID-19 vaccines to introduce the disease that will kill you and us. God forbid.”
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari will receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on live TV, when it becomes available, to help drive awareness on the vaccine administration among Nigerians.
According to the federal government, Buhari along with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and other key personnel will be among the first set to receive the vaccine.
The executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, broke the news at the presidential task force on COVID-19 joint national media briefing in Abuja on Thursday, January 7.
