Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has welcomed the decision to deny him and others who attended Abba Kyari’s funeral on Saturday access to Aso Villa.
Reports had surfaced about how some top goverment officials were locked out of the Villa after violating the social distancing rule put in place by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control at the ex-Chief of Staff’s burial.
According to reports, some of the Presidency aides include State House Chief Protocol Officer, Ambassador Lawal Kazaure, Special Assistant to the President, Yusuf Sabiu, a nephew to the President, Musa Haro Daura and Shehu.
The president’s SSA media has now confirmed this in a tweet on Sunday, adding that there isn’t anything wrong with the directive.
” There is nothing extraordinary about those of us who attend Abba Kyari’s funeral being advised to distance ourselves from the Villa,” he wrote.
“This is in line with the standard rules put in place by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Federal Ministry of Health. You do these things to stop the spread of coronavirus.
“For the most part, the villa has operated digitally in the last few weeks, so there is nothing really new to this.”
Nigeria has recorded 541 cases of coronavirus in the country with 19 deaths, one of whom was Mr Kyari.
