Former Vice-President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop all flights to and from Nigeria to all countries affected by the deadly coronavirus to prevent outbreak in the country. Adding that it might be one of the decisive ways of tackling the coronavirus threat.
Atiku made this known in a series of tweets on his Twitter page with handle @atiku.
In the tweets the former vice president, said Nigeria achieved the feat against Ebola by showing unprecedented unity.
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“The federal government of the day worked closely with the Lagos and Rivers state governments. There was complete unity, solidarity, and oneness of purpose, which created the atmosphere that defeated that deadly infestation,” Atiku said.
Read the tweets below:
We must call upon our experience with the Wild Ebola Virus, of which we were the first nation in the world to defeat that scourge in 2014. How did Nigeria do it? We achieved it by showing unprecedented unity.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 28, 2020
I strongly counsel that any tendency to blame and point fighters must be temporarily, if not permanently, suspended. If fingers must be pointed, it must be to solutions.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 28, 2020
It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy. We also need to invest in early detection facilities at our airports.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 28, 2020
This crisis is an opportunity to show that we are first and foremost Nigerians and that we have no other country but our dear fatherland, which we must work together to keep healthy and secure.
God bless Nigeria and her people.— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) February 28, 2020
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