COVID-19 Hits Aso Rock In Style, See List Of Those Affected

There is an outbreak of COVID-19 at Nigeria’s seat of power, with some presidential aides testing positive.

Premium Times had named those affected as the President’s Aide-de-camp (ADC), Yusuf Dodo; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Aliyu Musa, and the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

The online newspaper said their results were confirmed positive during the week.

The report also listed Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, among those affected.

Some of the infected officials including Mr Garba, sources disclosed, were taken out of the cabinet meeting on Wednesday when the result of their polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests came back positive.

-DailyTrust/PremiumTimes