Coronavirus: Nigeria’s Presidential Villa on ‘partial lockdown’
The Presidential Villa has been ‘partially lockdown’, in a bid to check the spread of coronavirus, while in ensuring that those who operate in the presidency are taken care of, about three to five spots have been set aside for testing of temperature and sanitizing of hands.
Penpushing reports that, the president’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, made this known on Wednesday, explaining that, “things are a bit on a low key. It doesn’t mean that the State House is shut down. What is happening at the State House can also be called a partial lockdown but not a complete lockdown,”
The President media aide while addressing State House journalists in Abuja further explained that “to ensure that those who operate in the presidency are taken care of,” about three to five spots have been set aside for testing of temperature and sanitizing of hands.
Penpushing further reports that Adesina added that before visitors get to the general areas in the State House, there are “about three areas of test and before you get into the president’s area you will meet like another two.”
The spokesman also said that the Federal Executive Council meetings have been suspended “because of the size, and that is not advisable at a time like this, explaining that important decisions, which ought to be taken by the Federal Executive Council( FEC), would still be taken by a smaller team of persons.
“If there would be a very important decision to be taken, the relevant people of about three to five would be summoned “to hold a small meeting and arrive at a decision,” Adesina said,and also urged Nigerians not to panic, but should abide by the instructions of authorities.
Penpushing reports that, Adesina noted that testing positive “is not a death sentence” as even the index case in Nigeria recovered and has been discharged, and also explained that journalists were not banned from the State House but their numbers were only reduced to check the spread of coronavirus.
