Nigerian politicians are playing games with COVID-19 - Yahaya Bello

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that politicians are playing games with the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

Bellow made this known when he received a courtesy visit from the Board of Trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation at the Lugard Office on July 2.

“Let us stop this game. Nigerians are suffering. Instead of the lockdown with its attendant negative effects on the people, why can’t we turn it to employment opportunities, providing clothes for face masks to be imported to those countries who have the disease.

"COVID-19 is not a new disease in our climate, we have our own way of treating it, that is what we should be exploiting rather than subjecting our people to hardship, hunger, and starvation through the lockdown”, Bello said.

The governor also stated that the late Chief Judge of the state, Justice Nasir Ajana, didn't die of COVID-19 as claimed. He said Ajana died due to complications from health issues he had been managing since 2016.

"We know his medical history, he was my brother, we know we have been managing him since 2016 but this time, he was completely isolated. No one was allowed to even speak to him until he passed away. We cannot afford to be playing games with lives of Nigerians, this must stop” Bello said