Yemisi Izuora
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has implored the Nigerian government to ban flights from the United Kingdom over the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in the country.
Atiku made this appeal via a series of tweets on his Twitter handle.
According to him, the reason Nigeria was hit harder than necessary during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was that the government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians.
He urged the government to act with caution and temporarily halt all flights from the UK; until this new strain of COVID-19 was brought under control.
He added that Nigeria’s health sector was not sufficiently prepared enough to handle a sudden and unpredictable surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Atiku wrote: “The reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the #COVID-19 virus was that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians, like myself and others, to shut down our borders once the virus became a pandemic.
The reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the COVID-19 virus is that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians, like myself and others, to shut down our borders once the virus became a pandemic.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku)
“The new strain of COVID-19 that has erupted in the United Kingdom, and specifically, London; can add to Nigeria’s health emergency if we do not act with an abundance of caution; and temporarily halt all flights to and from the UK until this new strain is brought under control.”