APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar continues to foul up the political area, with assertion after assertion dripping with insult and disrespect to the workplace of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
An announcement credited to the previous vp on the most recent public well being situation opened with a title linking the President’s first title to Ebola and questioning how the Presidential Task Force spent the N10 billion authorised for the emergency.
We consider linking and rhyming President Bola Tinubu’s title to Ebola solely dangers turning a critical well being concern right into a car to ridicule the President of the Federal Republic.
The assertion confirmed patent ignorance in regards to the virus and why the traveller from Uganda was not detected on arrival on the Abuja airport.
For anybody contaminated with the virus, the incubation interval ranges from 2 to 21 days, with signs sometimes showing 8 to 10 days after publicity. An contaminated particular person can not unfold or transmit Ebola to others till they actively develop signs.
This is why it took the contaminated Nigerian some days earlier than reporting to the hospital, the place a number of checks confirmed that the particular person had Ebola.
On accountability, the Atiku camp ought to word that the N10 billion the President authorised for the Ebola emergency in June stays untouched, whereas the NCDC, FAAN, and different surveillance businesses have spent different accessible sources.
The businesses deserve applause for mounting a strong surveillance at entry factors to avert Ebola unfold each time it lands on our shores.
This surveillance community tipped off the federal government in regards to the index case and led to contact tracing of the affected person’s 44 contacts.
A accountable opposition will applaud the Task Force for being responsive. But the Atiku camp at all times goes for affordable photographs on the authorities.
In this vein, we think about his allegation {that a} ministerial briefing is meant to discourage attendance at marketing campaign rallies or voting speculative. Vice President Atiku can not make such a critical allegation with out verifiable proof, particularly within the thick of electioneering. In any manner, the press convention didn’t increase this situation, besides to enchantment to the general public to adjust to the Task Force’s introduced protocol.
We advise Atiku Abubakar and his hirelings to keep away from politicising public well being points. A time like this calls for that every one Nigerians, together with the opposition, rally across the well being authorities and professionals, talk responsibly, keep away from rumour-mongering, and comply with the protocols suggested by the Task Force to make sure Ebola doesn’t grow to be a nationwide epidemic.
Nigerians deserve, to begin with, safety from the lethal illness.
Dele Alake
Spokesperson
APC Presidential Campaign Council
October 22, 2026
