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There Is Nothing Abnormal For Presidential Aides Testing Positive To COVID-19 – Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has made it clear that there’s nothing abnormal for Presidential aides testing positive to COVID-19.
Femi Adesina, who spoke on Channels Television yesterday, December 26, said that such incidents only confirmed that the presidential aides are human and not immune to happenings around them.
“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 Malam Garba Shehu has confirmed that, yes, he tested positive but he said it’s mild. And I believe that by now, because it happened since Wednesday, by now, he should almost have beaten it if he had not beaten it already. There is no cause for alarm.”
Commenting on his contact with Shehu recently, the media aide said: “Well, I also believe God for the best. If it happens, I’ll recover. So that’s it.”
Asked how many of the President’s aides in the State House 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 is between that person and possibly the doctor. It’s not going to be general knowledge.
”So I may not be able to say.”
Adesina also dismissed the fear being expressed in some quarters over the president’s health, because of his exposure to his aides, believed to have been infected with the virus.
“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.
