President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has said that he has contracted COVID-19.
He is one of the victims of the fourth wave of the pandemic in Nigeria.
He said this in confirmation of a report by ‘Premiumtimes’, which stated that some other top Federal Government officials have also contracted it.
In another report on Sunday night, Shehu said, “What is true is that I know that I’m self-isolating and taking my medication, but I know of no other case.”
Premium Times had reported that COVID-19 was ravaging the Presidential Villa. The newspaper said the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed as well as several other Villa officials including the Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijani Umar; the President’s Aide-de-camp, Yusuf Dodo; his chief security officer, Aliyu Musa, and his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had contracted the virus.
Mohammed has however denied having the disease.
