Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on Wednesday said he would be back soon from the isolation centre after testing positive to coronavirus.
The governor gave the assurance during a telephone call to his Special Assistant (Media and Communication), Enyinnaya Apollos.
Appolos in his post of Facebook wrote, “At exactly 5:18pm, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, he (Ikpeazu) said to me, ‘Nna, I’m very fine. Unu jide stage, meaning, you people should hold the stage), very soon I will be back. I’m doing fine.”
Meanwhile, there have been report that Ikpeazu, has been moved to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, for intensive care.
Sources disclosed that the governor has been undergoing dialysis over kidney issue, thereby further complicating his situation and threatening his chances of making a full recovery from COVID-19.
Recall that on March 22, 2020, Governor Ikpeazu said that the state will not record any Coronavirus case because it was the only state mentioned in the Holy Bible.
He said, “Abia is the only state that is mentioned in the Bible. We have a promise from God that none of these diseases will touch God’s people. And I hold on to God’s promise.
“We saw Ebola, it did not get to us. We saw monkeypox, it didn’t get to us. Even this one (COVID-19) will also pass us by.”