Hon. Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki, Bauchi State Commissioner for local government affairs has insisted that he has not tested positive for coronavirus, saying it was framed against him.
Zaki who took to his Facebook page says he’s healthy and will not accept to be framed with the deadly virus.
“I Hon. Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki, the Bauchi State commissioner for local government affairs is declaring that I’m not sick. “I don’t feel any pain in my body; I’m not coughing, I don’t have headache, nor fever and I’m eating food with no loss of appetite.
“I’m fine and healthy and there is no sign of whatever kind of ailment in my body and will not accept to be framed with any ailment.
The commissioner in a telephone conversation at the Bauchi Isolation centre continues to insist that he’s not positive for coronavirus.
“I’m at the isolation centre, but I continue to insist that nothing is wrong with me, because this sickness is framed on me”, he said on the phone.
When asked whether he was receiving medication associated with the virus, Zaki said “If they bring it I will take it, why not?
Asked what would be his next line of action having insisted that he has not tested positive for the virus, Zaki said, “I leave that to God”.
When contacted to comment on the controversy, Dr Aliyu Maigoro, the Bauchi state commissioner for health said “I’m glad that he admitted been at the isolation centre, that shows that we have done our work as ministry. “Ours is to do our work, we cannot mould anyone’s opinion”.
“What we are supposed to do as health experts is to inform him of the danger of this virus and take him to where he can be treated, and we have done exactly that”, Dr Maigoro added.
Zaki was believed to be the third index case that was tested positive for coronavirus in Bauchi.
He remains at the isolation centre in Bauchi and is receiving treatment as testified by Dr. Aliyu Maigoro.
