Contrary to a report by Sahara Reporters, the late ex-Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, wasn’t defrauded in Banglesdish nor purchased fake COVID-19 drugs, KAFTANPost can confirm.
The online outlet, on Friday, alleged that the late All Progressives Congress chieftain was defrauded of N50m after dispatching a private jet to fetch substandard drugs from the Asian nation.
Ajiomobi passed away on Thursday at First Cardiology Hospital in Lagos due to coronavirus complications.
And Sahara Reporters suggested that a broken last-ditch deal with Bangledish could have fast-tracked his demise.
However, a family source has debunked the claims, denying that the Remdesivir drug was never fake.
While admitting that the family was duped of cash in their desperate search for the scarce drug, the source added that the act wasn’t committed by strangers from Bangladesh but someone trusted and known.
” Ajimobi’s family on doctors recommendation was looking for Remdesivir to buy and searched all over pharmacies home and abroad,” KAFTANPost insider said.
“The family was promised the drug in Owerri, Imo State and were asked to pay for a deposit for it in advance. The family paid tens of millions of Naira and despatched a Chartered aircraft the Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri only for the source to switch off their phones.
“The plane after waiting for several hours had to return to Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos to the painful disappointment of the family amidst teary eyes. After further frantic and fruitless searches all over the world, the family met a good Samaritan who located the Bangladeshi source.
“The Ajimobi family obtained Remdesivir from Bangladesh not on commercial basis but on a government to government comity between Bangladesh and Nigeria”.
Family sources further confirmed to KAFTANPost that no payment was made to Bangladesh and the private aircraft to and from Dhaka to pick up the novel medicine was not hired rather released to the family on compassionate grounds.
Hospital sources confirmed that the medicine was neither fake nor substandard too.
” Remdesivir is a trial drug for COVID-19 and success is not guaranteed,” our source revealed.
” It is typical for a patient managed with Remdesivir to recover from COVID-19 after administration of the trial drug only to relapse due to comorbidities or contraindicated adverse effect of the medicine.”
Indeed, Ajimobi responded well to Remdesivir initially, testing negative and was woken up from induced coma with bright hopes of full recovery.
However, after three days of improvement and normal interactions, the former governor, commonly known as ‘Constituted Authority’, relapsed and slipped into irrecoverable coma attributed to multiple organ failures.
” It is true that the family was duped of cash in their desperate search for the scarce medication, Remdesivir but the scam was committed by Nigerians known to the family not kind strangers from Bangladesh and the Remdesivir gifted by Bangladesh was not fake,” the family source concluded.
