The Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Center, Lokoja, Dr Olatunde Alabi, has said that no close aide of the state governor, Alhaji Yahya Bello, died, on Monday, due to COVID-19 at the Federal Medical Center, Lokoja.
It was speculated, on Monday, that an aide to the governor died of coronavirus at the Federal Medical Center Lokoja.
However, the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Center, Dr Olatunde Alabi, dispelled the rumours making rounds.
He stated that it was a rumour and that the people of the state should disregard it adding that they never received outpatient suffering from coronavirus pandemic.
Also speaking, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, said there is no iota of truth that an aide to the governor died of coronavirus.
In a related news, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the federal government to direct, through the Presidential Task Force (PTF), an investigation into the coronavirus-free status of Kogi and Cross Rivers States.
The doctors said an investigation into the status and management response to the coronavirus by the two state governments is in the interest of safeguarding Nigeria’s public health, and to recommend appropriate remedial intervention if necessary.
