APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar continues to foul up the political area, with remark after remark dripping with insult and disregard to the place of work of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
A remark credited to the previous vice chairman on the most recent public well being factor opened with a name linking the President’s first identify to Ebola and wondering how the Presidential Job Pressure spent the N10 billion licensed for the emergency.
We imagine linking and rhyming President Bola Tinubu’s identify to Ebola simplest dangers turning a major well being worry right into a car to ridicule the President of the Federal Republic.
The remark confirmed patent lack of information in regards to the virus and why the traveller from Uganda used to be no longer detected on arrival on the Abuja airport.
For someone inflamed with the virus, the incubation length levels from 2 to 21 days, with signs generally showing 8 to ten days after publicity. An inflamed particular person can not unfold or transmit Ebola to others till they actively expand signs.
That is why it took the inflamed Nigerian some days ahead of reporting to the health facility, the place a number of assessments confirmed that the individual had Ebola.
On duty, the Atiku camp must observe that the N10 billion the President licensed for the Ebola emergency in June stays untouched, whilst the NCDC, FAAN, and different surveillance companies have spent different to be had assets.
The companies deserve applause for mounting a strong surveillance at access issues to avert Ebola unfold each time it lands on our shores.
This surveillance community tipped off the federal government in regards to the index case and ended in touch tracing of the affected person’s 44 contacts.
A accountable opposition will applaud the Job Pressure for being responsive. However the Atiku camp at all times is going for inexpensive pictures on the executive.
On this vein, we imagine his allegation {that a} ministerial briefing is meant to deter attendance at marketing campaign rallies or balloting speculative. Vice President Atiku can not make one of these critical allegation with out verifiable proof, particularly within the thick of electioneering. In any respect, the clicking convention didn’t lift this factor, except for to enchantment to the general public to agree to the Job Pressure’s introduced protocol.
We propose Atiku Abubakar and his hirelings to keep away from politicising public well being problems. A time like this calls for that each one Nigerians, together with the opposition, rally across the well being government and pros, be in contact responsibly, keep away from rumour-mongering, and practice the protocols prompt by way of the Job Pressure to make sure Ebola does no longer turn into a countrywide epidemic.
Nigerians deserve, to start with, coverage from the fatal illness.
Dele Alake
Spokesperson
APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council
October 22, 2026