President Muhammadu
Buhari has charged state governors cooperate with the Presidential Task Force
PTF on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
The President who spoke
to the Governors’ Forum in a virtual meeting on Monday, charged the governors
to continue educating and persuading their citizens to accept the reality of
COVID-19 in the country and live responsibly.
In a statement issued
by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina,
the President said the PTF had briefed him on next steps in the national
response to the pandemic, “and I have directed that they work very closely with
the Governors.”
According to the
president, the pandemic was “beyond technology, power, and resources,” noting
that countries that had all those, were recording highest casualties round the
world.
The President was
joined in the Executive Council chambers at the State House, Abuja, by the
Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Chief of Staff to the
President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, among others.
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